Adebayo Oke-Lawal is the creative director of androgynous fashion label Orange Culture. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and a master’s degree in business and international management from Newcastle Business School, England. Lawal built his portfolio while he was a member of the creative collective of stylists called BUBAAI but left the group in […]
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Begun over last week, we present the second part of leading couturier, Ade Bakare’s insightful interview. Please tell us why you decided to set up a fashion academy in Ikoyi, Lagos and in what ways it will be different from the several existing fashion schools in Nigeria? When we opened our boutique in Lagos in […]
British Nigerian menswear designer Tokyo James presented his Spring/Summer 2018 collection titled ‘African Cowboy’ at the just concluded South African Menswear Week #SAMWSS18. Simplicity and edge is Tokyo James’ usual style as was evident in his latest collection. Employing colours like white, burgundy and grey in most of his pieces, James brought a new side […]
Ade Bakare is a British-trained Nigerian couturier well known for his exquisite designs, which have been showcased all over the world including Morocco, Cape Town, Monaco, London, Vienna, Mozambique, New York and Paris. Bakare was notably Stella Obasanjo’s official designer and over the span of his nearly 25 years of catering to private clients across […]
Vivacious Nigerian linguist, Ogochukwu Akabogu founded one of the more familiar brands on the contemporary fashion scene in Lagos, Lines by Chaab, where she is the creative director. It is a product of her obsession for languages and art, which she translates into the common universal language of fashion. Lines by Chaab blurs historical and […]
In a time when it appears that less is more, when it comes to fashion, nude clothing straddles the balance of what is considered decent or indecent. The colours we classify as nude are beige, cream, and camel; but whether or not the colour is ‘nude’ depends on the individual wearing it. The closer the […]
Like a coat of many colours, Helen Parker-Jayne Isibor‘s artistic interests include music, dance, drama and fashion. Famous for her jewel-bright Nigerian clothes, Isibor is on her way to becoming one of Nigeria’s top fashion designers. In this interview with Moni Agbedeh, she tells us about her vision and inspiration and why we can count […]
London-born, law graduate and founder of Africa Fashion Week London and Nigeria, Ronke Ademiluyi is an Ife Princess. Her mission in the fashion industry is helping fashion designers to convert their talents into enterprises that can sustain them and grow into big businesses; by giving them much needed visibility. In August 2011, Ronke Ademiluyi decided […]
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Tayo Shonekan is a leading Lagos- based fashion designer and a stylist. She got her first taste of success in 2004, when her first attempt at designing for her Aimas label was a hit. The entire batch was sold out in the United Kingdom! Growing up, this engineer turned fashionista, had a wealth of cultural […]