#GTBankFashionWeekend Day 2: Taibo Bacar, Ejiro Amos Tafiri, David Tlale

The GTBank Fashion Weekend is a consumer focused fashion exhibition and capacity building event that aims to promote enterprise within the fast growing Nigerian fashion industry. The inaugural event, held November 12-13, 2016, in Lagos, Nigeria, included masterclasses, shopping and runway shows. Here are the three designers that showed collections on day two of the …

#GTBankFashionWeekend : Watch Tracy Reese, Sam Fine, Claire Summers, Bijou Abiola & more!

The GTBANK FASHION WEEKEND was an amazing showcase of the best of fashion, style and entrepreneurship in Nigeria and by far the largest fashion event of the year. Watch the highlights of DAY 1 activities from the exhibitions to the presentations and Masterclasses featuring Celebrity Makeup Artist, Sam Fine, British Fashion Aficionado, Caroline Rush and …

#GTBankFashionWeekend Day 1: Adama Paris, Julien MacDonald, Lanre Da Silva Ajayi

The GTBank Fashion Weekend is a consumer focused fashion exhibition and capacity building event that aims to promote enterprise within the fast growing Nigerian fashion industry. The inaugural event, held November 12-13, 2016, in Lagos, Nigeria, included masterclasses, shopping and runway shows. Here are the three designers that showed collections on day one of the …

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Eki Orleans: Ms. Afropolitan’s Minna Salami and television host Adora Oleh go from “diva chic to urban boheme”

UK design brand Eki Orleans  taps into the beauty and power of two African women, Ms. Afropolitan’s Minna Salami and entertainment television host Adora Oleh, to unveil a collection that takes the brilliant woman from “diva chic to urban boheme.” “Our vision was to bring Eki Orleans to the streets of London in style,” said …

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Meet Isatu Harrison, the fashion designer who escaped a Civil War in Sierra Leone to launch a contemporary fashion label in the UK

Born in the Eastern town of Kono, Sierra Leone Isatu Harrison was raised by her entrepreneurial single mother with her 3 siblings. Whilst living in Kono, civil war broke out which put her community in danger. Her entire family had to escape from the civil war in Kono and moved to the capital of Sierra …