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Anita Beryl

Ugandan fashion designer, entrepreneur and coutrier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ43290694 ↗
Source-derived summary

Anita Beryl (born 11 January 1986) is a Ugandan Fashion Designer, Couturier and Entrepreneur. She is the creative director of Beryl Qouture, a Ugandan fashion house. The Ugandan magazine, Satisfashion Uganda, named Beryl one of "The 40 Movers and Shakers of 2016", in December 2016.

Early life and education

Anita was born to Rev. and Mrs. Ahabwe of Bushenyi district, and is the first-born of six children born to the couple. She attended Bweranyangyi Girls for O and A-level and left in 2005. She later joined Uganda Christian University, Mukono, for a Bachelor of Arts in Education, graduating in 2009. She attained her first fashion training at Uber Glam, in Johannesburg, South Africa, before joining, French Fashion University, ESMOD.

Career

In 2011, she founded Beryl Quoture By Anita Beryl, as an Haute Qouture and ready to wear clothing and accessory franchise for all genders Her label was invited to participate in local, regional and international fashion shows including "Accra Fashion Week", in Ghana and "Swahili Fashion Week" in Tanzania, in 2016 alone. In 2017, she was invited to showcase her design at the World Fashion Week 2017, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Anita Beryl” is ugandan fashion designer, entrepreneur and coutrier. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Anita, Beryl and Ugandan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2016, 2005, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-01-11. For this dossier, Anita, Beryl and Ugandan is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q43290694. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2016, 2005 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anita Beryl” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.