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Nigeria has produced many fashion designers. Shade Thomas (later Thomas-Fahm) became Nigeria's first widely recognized fashion designer. After studying fashion design in England in the 1950s, prior to Nigerian independence, she set up a shop at the Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos and a garment factory at the Yaba Industrial Estate. Specializing ...
But away from the storyline, I always look out for the looks,” celebrity stylist Oluwatosin Ogundadegbe, popularly known as ‘The Style Infidel’, tells Quartz. How Nigeria's TV and film ...
Teenage climate activists in Nigeria’s largest city are recycling trash into runway outfits for a “Trashion Show.” Chinedu Mogbo, founder The post Nigerian teens create fashion from trash to ...
Port Harcourt International Fashion Week (alternatively known as Native & Vogue) is an annual clothing and fashion event held in the oil capital of Nigeria, Port Harcourt. [1] This event, a part of fashion in Nigeria, first took place in 2013 and it continues to be jointly organized by Neo Mantra Ltd and Bruno Creazioni Company. The event lasts ...
Lagos Fashion Week was founded in 2011 by Omoyemi Akerele and is produced by fashion business development agency Style House Files. [5] The event aims to give the Nigerian and African fashion industry international recognition, by bringing together media, buyers, manufacturers and consumers.
Historically, Nigerian fashion incorporated many different types of fabrics. Cotton has been used for over 500 years for fabric-making in Nigeria. Silk (called tsamiya in Hausa, sanyan in Yoruba, and akpa-obubu in Igbo) is also used. [83] Perhaps the most popular fabric used in Nigerian fashion is Dutch wax print, produced in the Netherlands.
Hayati Fashion Week was created as a response to a perceived lack of representation of modest fashion on major Nigerian fashion platforms. It has provided designers, models, artists and other businesses in the Nigerian modest fashion industry, a platform to showcase their work, directly.
A more playful approach to style. The result is a whimsical fashion world where lesbian-influenced fashion has given the green light to a harmonious mixing of power dressing staples like suits and ...