Braisha Owens-Mount is an Akron-based multidisciplinary artist, fashion designer, stylist, and creative director whose work lives at the intersection of wearable art, fashion, and lived experience. As the founder and creative force behind House of Bo and Kissed by BO, she approaches clothing as more than something to wear—using sculptural silhouettes, reconstructed denim, mixed-media construction, and one-of-one design to explore identity, purpose, faith, culture, and transformation.

Her creative foundation began long before her professional career. Raised in Akron and educated through Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Firestone High School’s arts program, Braisha began sketching fashion illustrations as early as fifth grade, filling notebooks with couture concepts and staging impromptu runway shows for her family. By thirteen, she had her first sewing machine and was altering garments and creating looks for school productions. Her greatest early influence was her mother, affectionately known as '“the Fashion Commissioner,”' who instilled the philosophy that continues to inform Braisha’s work: life itself is a runway.

Braisha later educational background in Fashion Merchandising with a minor in Marketing from Kent State University. While in college, she wrote her first business plan in 2013 and began developing a practice rooted in styling that would eventually expand into design, creative direction, fashion presentations, and wearable art.

Over the course of her career, Braisha’s work has crossed runway, editorial, celebrity dressing, television, and community arts programming. Kissed by BO designs have been worn or featured in connection with Jordin Sparks, Carrie Bernans, Sommer Ray, and Moxie Raia, with her work also appearing through New Day Cleveland, Akron Life Magazine, Los Angeles Fashion Week-related programming, the Columbus Museum of Art, and fashion presentations throughout Ohio and beyond.

After nearly a decade in Columbus, Braisha returned home to Akron, entering a new chapter as an artist, wife, and mother. That return has deepened her exploration of fashion as a visual-art medium and brought her creative journey full circle—from the young girl filling sketchbooks with imagined silhouettes to an artist physically constructing them. Today, her work transforms reconstructed textiles and unconventional materials into sculptural wearable art, continuing to explore what fashion can become when the body is treated as a canvas and clothing as an artifact rather than simply a product.