Bravo TV hits it big with twelve (12) nominations at the upcoming 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Project Runway Season 5 of which the ultra-brilliant Ladybrille’s Korto Momolu participated in, is up for two(2) of the (12) awards: “Outstanding Reality Competition Program” and “Outstanding Picture Editing for Reality Programming.” Korto Momolu was first runner up …
Tara Fela Durotoye: Personality of the Month
Nigeria’s beauty industry genealogy would be incomplete without Tara Fela Durotoye. Durotoye, attorney turned makeup artist and serial entrepreneur, is the managing and creative director for House of Tara International, Nigeria’s first makeup school company established to elevate the beauty industry standards as well as train the next generation of beauty experts. She is also …
Oluchi Onweagba-Orlandi, Naija Model on the Move!
African models are at the heart of its thriving fashion industry. Iman, Liya Kebede, Alek Wek are some of the names that really showed Africans are fashionable. Similarly, on the international and local scene, Nigerian models are painting the world green, white, green. An example is Nigeria’s Supermodel Oluchi Onweagba-Orlandi. Oluchi’s emergence on the runway …
LDA by Lanre Da Silva Ajayi
Lanre Da Silva Ajayi is a designer whose point of view can easily be misunderstood in a place like Nigeria without the right models, hair, makeup and the right platform to make every element of her designs come to life. A devotee of the Victorian era, Da Silva’s designs tend to be full of floor …
Nike Ogunlesi, Ruff n Tumble
Imagine starting a business when the word ‘entrepreneur’ especially ‘fashion entrepreneur’ sounded very foreign to Nigerians. That is precisely what Nike Ogunlesi, founder and CEO of Ruff n Tumble did. “I started in 1996, I was selling from the back of my car, I was selling at bazaars. Everywhere, there was a bazaar, I was there, my …
ESPY 2009 Awards: Red Carpet
The big names in music, fashion and film gathered yesterday July 15th, 2009 at the Nokia theatre for the 17th annual ESPY Awards, an event that honors excellence in sports. In attendance were some of the hottest African, European, American and Asian celebs like: Ephraim Saalam, Demi Moore, Wyclef Jean, Rashida Jones, Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle …