Savile Row. Today, in addition to a bespoke service, Boateng also produces two ready-to-wear collections a year, produced at the former Chester Barrie factory in Crewe, Cheshire. Collaborations LVMH President Bernard Arnault appointed Boateng Creative Director of Menswear at French Fashion house Givenchy. In a 2019 interview with Icon Mann," Boateng reveals that back then his "challenge [had been] to reinvent the French gentleman," and that "he [had] succeeded in doing so." His first collection was shown in July 2004 in Paris, at Hotel de Ville. Boateng parted with Givenchy after the Spring 2007 collection. In 2004, Coutts approached Boateng to design a new Super-Premium credit card. The Coutts "World Credit Card" appears in Boateng's trademark imperial purple, designed to communicate a new modernity and supreme elegance. In 2004, Boateng designed new amenity kits for Virgin Atlantic's Upper Class. Critically claimed to be the most stylish first-class kits available to travellers on any airline, the design increased pick rate fivefold. Boateng was commissioned by John Agyekum Kufuor, President of the Republic of Ghana, to design and orchestrate a show at the ninth annual African Union summit in 2007. Held in Accra, it coincided with 200 years since the cessation of the transatlantic slave trade, and 50 years of independence for Ghana. In 2018 British Airways confirmed that Boateng had been chosen as the designer for its new uniform, to be launched as part of the organisation's centenary celebrations. This appointment was a matter of controversy amongst customers of the airline and staff alike, who had come to believe that the new uniform would be designed in partnership with the British brand Burberry. After 4 years of painstaking work with departments throughout the airline to truly understand the needs of those who would wear the uniform, Boateng's "British Airways x Ozwald Boateng" collection was launched by British Airways in 2023 in the midst of the airline's "A British Original" campaign. Film and television Boateng has designed bespoke costumes for films and TV shows including Mo' Better Blues, Hannibal, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Tomorrow Never Dies, Sex and the City, Ugly Betty, Eastern Promises, Gangster Number One, Alfie, Assault on Precinct 13, The Matrix, Miami Vice, Oceans 13, and Rush Hour 3. Director Varon Bonicos filmed Boateng between 1998 and 2010 for a fly-on-the-wall feature documentary called A Man's Story, released in March 2012. On 22 June 2006, the Sundance