Press and Media
Sai Sankoh Press and Media
The Sierra Leone-born designer behind the Goddess Kaftan, a Dallas fashion company known for original prints, unforgettable color, and pieces made to be remembered.
From television and film to birthdays, vacations and private celebrations, Sai Sankoh designs for the woman who wants to feel confident, visible and fully herself.
Why now
The next chapter begins in Dallas
Sai Sankoh is preparing to introduce a new collection in August 2026 from her Dallas Design District showroom.
The brand's latest screen moment features Niecy Nash in the Serengeti Kaftan in Hulu's All's Fair, following years of television, film and wardrobe appearances across Netflix, PBS, NBC, ABC and Bravo.
At the center of it all is the same idea Sai began with in 2018: create clothing that helps a woman walk into a room feeling beautiful, confident and unforgettable.
Built in Dallas
Founder-led fashion company with a showroom in the Dallas Design District
Awards & Recognition
Awards and recognition
Designer Spotlight — Sai Sankoh Gets Candid About Life & Design
A profile on Sai's life, design point of view and growing brand.
View source ↗Rising Star Award — Women's Fashion
Winner after earlier recognition as a rising designer.
View source ↗Creative Currency
The Sahara Goddess Kaftan appeared on the NYSE screens during the first fashion event held on the exchange floor.
View source ↗Sierra Leone Independence Day 2025 Honors — "Trailblazer"
Recognized for fashion design and creative leadership.
View source ↗Latest News & Current Placements
Profiles and industry coverage
Press archive
Selected profiles, features and editorial mentions
Sicily blouse and skirt featured in Afropolitain Magazine
View source ↗Zemorah gown and two additional pieces featured in MICHELE Watches campaigns
View source ↗Sai Sankoh editorial feature in GMARO Magazine
View source ↗Dreaming in Color, fashion feature
View source ↗‘Portrait of a Lady’ collection featured on CNN Africa
View source ↗54 African Designers You Should Know
View source ↗Featured on Vogue Italia (Vogue Black)
Two street-style appearances — the FW 2012/2013 recap and the SS 2013 New York Fashion Week street style report.
View source ↗Street Style: NYFW Spring 2013 — "Bright Young Thing"
Blogger Sai Sankoh wears a Vivid Emporium dress and Christian Louboutin shoes.
Street Style: NYFW Spring 2013 — "Custom Designs"
Blogger Sai Sankoh wears a custom dress and market headwrap.
ELLE Loves
"A Seat at the Table" — honoring April Ryan, post-WHCD
View source ↗Black Designers & Brands to Look Out For — ranked #2
View source ↗Opal Lee, "Grandmother of Juneteenth," in a Sai Sankoh dress
View source ↗Quoted as a print authority on celeb-adored summer prints
View source ↗If You're Not Wearing a Caftan at the Dinner Table
The Blue Jezebel Goddess Kaftan.
Shopping feature
View source ↗Television, Film & Wardrobe Placements
On screen
Murder Mystery 2 (2023)
Jodie Turner-Smith as Countess Sekou, in the Iva Goddess Kaftan — opposite Adam Sandler & Jennifer Aniston.
View source ↗Resort Wear Collection Showcase
In-studio segment — colorful resort wear from her latest collection.
View source ↗Pop-Up Preview — Black Business Month
Previewing her pop-up event with swimwear designer Keva J.
View source ↗Beautiful & Exotic Fashions
Good Morning Texas fashion feature.
View source ↗Fashion Week Comes to Harlem (2023)
Her Harlem runway show, NYFW September 2023.
View source ↗On Tamron, on camera
Tamron Hall in a pink & green Sai Sankoh shirt dress — brand credited on air.
View source ↗Texas Today
"Resort wear trends with Sai Sankoh" — filmed in the Dallas showroom.
View source ↗Good Morning Texas
A studio segment on the label's resort-wear collection.
Documented across two independent wardrobe databases (WornOnTV & ShopYourTV). Recurring national placements: TODAY (NBC), Good Morning America (ABC), The View (ABC), Live with Kelly & Mark (ABC), Tamron Hall Show, Sherri, RHOA / RHOBH / RHOD, RH Ultimate Girls Trip and Married to Medicine (Bravo). Networks and programs shown are not affiliated with Sai Sankoh; appearances are documented wardrobe placements.
Video
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Featured film
Reinvent the Runway — the Sai Sankoh documentary trailer
From the Serengeti to the Dallas Design District: a first look at the film in development. Watch the trailer ↗
NBC 5 Texas Today — Resort wear trends with Sai Sankoh, filmed in the Dallas showroom.
Watch on NBC ↗
PBS Fit 2 Stitch — Season 9, Episode 11.
Watch on PBS ↗Notable Wearers
Worn by women who know how to make an entrance
A selection of the women who wear Sai Sankoh — including all four members of Destiny's Child: Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams and LeToya Luckett.
Gabrielle Union
With daughter Kaavia in matching prints, and the Aphrodite Goddess Kaftan in Italy.
Source ↗Bozoma Saint John
Marketing icon across five looks — WSJ, WWD, a Ms. Foundation honoree gown, and Bravo's RHOBH.
Source ↗LeToya Luckett
The Charlotte blouse and Doreen skirt.
@letoyaluckett
Porsha Williams
"Rich Aunty" kaftans, and RH Ultimate Girls Trip.
Fashion Bomb Daily
Sidra Smith
The actress and producer in the Lisa Box Kaftan.
@sidrasmithofficial
Melba Wilson
Recurring morning-television wearer — Today, GMA, The View, Live with Kelly and Ryan.
Marlo Hampton
Bravo's Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Tiffany Moon
Bravo's Real Housewives of Dallas.
Tamron Hall
Madison Shirt Dress, worn on air — September 2024.
Tamron Hall Show
The story
Collections as worlds
Sai Sankoh does not choose a location after a collection is finished. The location is part of the collection. Every campaign is shot on location and built as a complete world: the place, the women, the craft, and the memory the clothes carry long after the moment is over.
Featured story: Tales of Serengeti
A collection photographed during the Great Migration
For Tales of Serengeti, Sai traveled to Tanzania with a crew of more than 30 people to photograph the collection in the landscape that inspired it. Models arrived by hot air balloon.
The story continued beyond the clothes. Women in Tanzania created the hats and bags for the collection, and Sai invited those women to model the pieces themselves.
Years later, the Serengeti Goddess Kaftan from this collection appeared on Niecy Nash in Hulu's All's Fair. Niecy Nash has worn at least five Sai Sankoh looks; the Serengeti Goddess Kaftan is the one that appeared in the Hulu production.
Every collection, a destination
The first collection
Photographed at home in Dallas, where the house began.
Lusting Havana
Photographed in the streets of Havana.
Portrait of a Lady
Planned for Italy. When COVID made travel impossible, Sai photographed it at home, and it became one of the brand's most viral collections.
Two Suns
Photographed in Mexico, directed by Diamond Mahone.
Tales of Serengeti
Photographed during the Great Migration with a crew of more than 30.
They Always Remember Her
Photographed in the markets of Istanbul.
From a Harlem street to the screen
Sai partnered with Melba's Harlem to stage a fashion show on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, closing the street and turning the neighborhood into the runway. Melba Wilson is a long-time collector and has worn the brand repeatedly on national morning television.
Leadership
Speaking and industry work
- Panelist, FGI Dallas second annual Fall Virtual Forum, Women's Fashion panel, filmed at Carolina Herrera in Highland Park Village, August 2020
- Featured panelist, SMU Look Media Female Founders in Fashion
- Judge, FGI Dallas Emerging Designer Contest, 2025 and 2026
Community
Custom work and community
- Sai created a custom print for a friend who is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Tamron Hall wore the dress on her first episode after becoming an honorary member, and the print went on to become the viral Madison print.
- In June 2025, Sai created a collection for Delta Sigma Theta clients and chose actual members to model the pieces.
- In 2025, the showroom hosted a private gathering for Zeta members, including Dr. Stacie Grant.
- In 2025, Sai created a custom print for the Jack and Jill of America Fort Worth chapter.
- Her collectors include members of The Links and other women's organizations.
Custom work and private events reflect client and chapter relationships, not national organizational partnerships.
From Sai
— SaiI did not set out to dress television. I set out to make pieces that make a woman feel unforgettable when she walks into a room. It turns out the two are not so different.
Watching my kaftans appear on morning television, on Bravo, and in a Netflix film has meant the world to me. But the appearance I care about most will always be yours, at your birthday, on your trip, or during your night out.
I never wanted women to simply wear my clothes. I wanted them to remember how they felt in them.
Never go unnoticed.
About
About Sai
From pediatric nursing to fashion
Sai Sankoh was born in Sierra Leone and raised between Freetown, Stockholm, London and Accra before moving to the United States at 15.
Before fashion, she worked as a pediatric nurse. In 2018, she founded her namesake company around one simple belief: a woman should never have to shrink to walk into a room.
Today, Sai leads the business as founder, CEO and creative director from Dallas. She designs each collection, develops the brand's original prints and welcomes clients into the Dallas Design District showroom.
Her signature Goddess Kaftan is designed to fit beautifully across a wide range of bodies, and the full collection is available in sizes 0–24.
About Sai Sankoh
"Sai Sankoh is a Dallas luxury resortwear house known for bold, original prints and the one-size Goddess Kaftan. Designed for the woman who refuses to go unnoticed — built for compliments, made for the art of arrival."
- Founded
- 2018
- Founder
- Sai Sankoh, Founder & Creative Director
- Headquarters
- Dallas, Texas
- Showroom
- 3,000 sq ft, Dallas Design District
- Address
- 4755 Algiers Street, Suite 110, Dallas, TX 75207
- Category
- Black-owned luxury resortwear house, original prints
- Signature
- The one-size Goddess Kaftan (fits 0–24)
- Recognition
- Best Resortwear, D Magazine 2024
- Slogan
- Never Go Unnoticed
- Website / Social
- saisankoh.com · @shopsaisankoh
Founder bios for editors
50-word bio
Sai Sankoh, born in Sierra Leone and based in Dallas, is a former nurse turned founder of her namesake luxury resortwear house. Launched in 2018, it's known for the one-size Goddess Kaftan and original in-house prints. D Magazine named her Best Resortwear in 2024 — "the resortwear goddess."
100-word bio
Sai Sankoh was born in Sierra Leone and grew up between London, Ghana and the United States. Before fashion, she was a nurse. She launched her namesake resortwear house in 2018 and designs every print in-house from her showroom in the Dallas Design District. Her signature is the one-size Goddess Kaftan — long, draped, cut to flatter, made from fine silks. She was nominated twice for Fashion Group International's Rising Star Award and won in 2022, and in 2024 D Magazine named her Best Resortwear and called her "the resortwear goddess." Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Essence, Vogue Italia and WWD, on Netflix and Bravo, and on Beyoncé, Lupita Nyong'o, Gabrielle Union and Iman.
250-word bio
Sai Sankoh was born in Sierra Leone and grew up between London, Ghana and the United States. Before fashion, she was a nurse. In 2018, she launched her namesake luxury resortwear house, designing every print in-house from her showroom in the Dallas Design District — a 3,000-square-foot flagship with a rooftop lounge and a champagne shopping experience.
Her signature is the one-size Goddess Kaftan — long, draped, cut to flatter, and made from fine silks sourced from India, and engineered to fit US sizes 0–24. The prints begin as original artwork, which is why the women who wear them get stopped and asked where their outfit came from.
She was nominated twice for Fashion Group International's Rising Star Award and won in 2022. In 2024, D Magazine named her Best Resortwear and called her "the resortwear goddess," and she was honored among Black designers at the first Fashion Week event held on the New York Stock Exchange floor, where her Sahara Goddess Kaftan appeared on the NYSE screens.
Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Essence, Vogue Italia and WWD, on Netflix and Bravo, and across six years of national television — including TODAY, Good Morning America, The View and Bravo. She has dressed Beyoncé, Lupita Nyong'o, Gabrielle Union and Iman, among others.
Showroom
Visit the Dallas Design District showroom
4755 Algiers Street, Suite 110
Dallas, TX 75207
Open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 AM to 6 PM. Press visits, interviews and filming may be requested by appointment.
More than retail
"The showroom is our girl cave, our home, and a place where women gather." — Sai
- Kaftan and Caviar with the Kim Olysanya Caviar Experience, May 2026
- A private Women Who Shine shopping experience, purchased through a charitable auction
- A private gathering for Zeta members with Dr. Stacie Grant, 2025
- Private appointments and cultural gatherings for clients, including members of The Links
Image Library
High-resolution imagery
Cleared-for-editorial images below may be downloaded and used with credit. Items marked "Request via Email" are available directly from the press team.
Sai Sankoh — official press image
Credit: Sai Sankoh
Portrait 2:3 · 1302×1953px
Cleared for editorial use with credit.
Goddess Kaftan — White Lurex
Credit: Sai Sankoh
Portrait 2:3 · 2400×3600px
Product imagery — cleared for editorial use with credit.
Melba Kaftan — green and white feather
Credit: Sai Sankoh
Portrait 2:3 · 1200×1800px
Product imagery — cleared for editorial use with credit.
Founder portrait
Credit: Sai Sankoh
Portrait, high resolution
Cleared for editorial use with credit.
Showroom interior
Credit: Sai Sankoh
Landscape, high resolution
Cleared for editorial use with credit.
Wardrobe placement still
Credit: Sai Sankoh
Portrait 2:3 · 1149×1700px
Cleared for editorial use with credit.
Logos & Brand Assets
Brand marks
The logo pack below includes current PNG files. Vector SVG, EPS and AI masters are in production — the ZIP will be reissued with those formats added; available on request.
Primary logo
PNG included · vector formats in production
Logo mark (on dark)
PNG included · vector formats in production
Fact sheet (PDF-ready .txt)
Founding, category, signature product, recognition and contact, all in one place.
Complete press kit (.zip)
Fact sheet, all three founder bios and logo PNGs, bundled.
Press Kit
Download the press kit
Sai Sankoh — Press Kit 2026
Two-page press kit with founder bio, brand overview, selected recognition, story directions and press contact.
Download Press Kit (PDF)Contact & Request Forms
Get in touch
Sai Sankoh Press — connect@saisankoh.com | +1 (571) 926-5813
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The Origin Story
Before the label
Before founding Sai Sankoh, Sai built an audience through her personal style platform, Because I Am Fabulous, while working full time as a nurse.
Her early work and personal style were recognized by Washingtonian, The Washington Post, Vogue Italia, Essence, Elle South Africa, Humans of New York, Apartment Therapy and other publications. That audience became part of the foundation for the fashion company she launched in Dallas in 2018.
