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PHOTOGRAPHY BY C2 PHOTOGRAPHY INTO AFRICA ANNA TRZEBIN BRINGS A TASTE OF THE TRIBAL TO THE COLORADO ROCKIES WITH A NEW FLAGSHIP STORE. BY CHRISTINE BENEDETTI Anna Trzebinski is the first to admit that she makes an unlikely fashion designer. "I'm not a shopper," she insists. "Have I been to design school? Absolutely not. Do I know how to pin and drape? No. Do I know how to draw very well? No. But I know how to work with people who do." The design crew she's referring to is made up of tribal artisans in Nairobi, Kenya, who bring to life Trzebinski's intricately handmade line of womenswear and home goods. While she is bound to Kenya by her business, started 21 years ago, she's also inextricably tied to the land and its people through her family—she was reared there and still runs a safari camp, Lemarti's Camp, with her husband, Loyaban Lemarti, a native Samburu. Kenya meets Colorado: After more than 20 years in the business of artisanal, handcrafted fashion, Anna Trzebinski, shown here wearing a hand-loomed cashmere shawl from West Africa, opened her first-ever storefront, in Aspen, this fall. CONTINUED ON PAGE 56 ASPENPEAK-MAGAZINE.COM 55 STYLE Tastemaker