Biography
Boateng, whose parents emigrated from Ghana in the 1950s, was born in 1967 in Muswell Hill, North London. In London his father continued his career as a teacher, while his mother who was in the fabric trade in Ghana became a seamstress. His parents divorced when he was five, and Boateng has two older siblings.
Boateng was inspired by the immaculate suits his father wore, and received his first suit from his mother aged eight: a double-breasted in purple mohair. At fourteen, he found a summer job sewing linings into suits.
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