Olivier Strelli
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Olivier Strelli born Nissim Israel is a Belgian fashion designer, who put Belgium on the fashion map, is the son of Greek Jews from the island of Rhodes. His family migrated to Congo in the early 20th century. The Congo was Belgium's great colonial back then with many influential groups including several other non-African communities apart from the Belgians such as the Portuguese, Indians, British, Americans, Greeks, and Jews. Many of the Greeks and Sephardic-Jews fled political unrest in the Balkans. Jewish families like Strelli's were mainly from the Aegean Island of Rhodes. Strelli's family ended up in Belgium after the Congolese Independence. [1]
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