Grandmothers are sometimes seen and imagined with delicate silver hair, neatly oiled and combed, carrying comfy garments—cotton in summers and nothing past wool in winters, significantly cardigans. Nonetheless, Margret Chola, a granny in her mid-80s in rural Zambia, has embraced modernity, and has now turn into a vogue icon on the Web.
Generally known as “Legendary Glamma” on the Web, Chola—with the assistance of her granddaughter Diana Kaumb—performs dress-up, which led her to world fame. Kaumb, a New York-based vogue stylist, created a Granny Collection in 2023.
All of it started when Kaumb was visiting Zambia on her father’s second dying anniversary. Talking to BBC Information, Kaumb shared that her late father impressed her ardour for vogue as he was at all times well-dressed. Through the go to, Kaumb couldn’t put on all of the outfits that she curated and requested her grandmother to play dress-up.
“I wasn’t doing something on the time, so I simply stated: ‘OK. If that’s what you need to do, let’s do it – why not? You’ll miss me once I die and no less than this fashion you can be remembering me,” BBC Information quoted Chola as saying.
In April 2024, the “Granny Collection” went viral when Kaumba posted a collection of images of her grandmother in a purple Adidas gown, pairing it with chunky, golden necklaces and a glittering jewelled crown.
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Chola was raised by her grandparents. In line with BBC Information, Chola needed to drop out of college on the age of 12 or 13 as a result of monetary causes. She was pressured to marry a person in his 30s and had three kids with him. Later, the person turned an alcoholic and ended the wedding.
Now, she is over 85 years of age, however her vogue statements, courtesy of her granddaughter, have made her world well-known. She now has over 100k followers on Instagram.
“I’m now in a position to get up with a function realizing that folks all over the world like to see me,” she advised BBC Information.
