“Since 1995 the Odio Mimonet label has represented creativity and has been described as art by its numerous fans and clientele. The label is well known for its bespoke haute couture pieces that are stylish, artistic and exclusive. In November 2006 a prêt-a-porter line called Voyage was launched to compliment the label’s couture line. Voyage …
Arise Africa Fashion Week ’09, Anna Ngann Yonn
“Upon graduating from high school, Anna Ngann Yonn took her passion for clothing design and enrolled at Paris fashion design school, ESMOD, where, after three years of studying in the fields of women’s ready-to-wear and haute couture, she became a stylist. Anna then opened an art studio/showroom in her native Cameroon, specializing in tailor-made items …
Africa Fashion Week ’09, Lanre Da Silva Ajayi
“Lanre Da Silva Ajayi studied business administration at Coventry University and obtained her masters degree at the University of Leicester in finance. With this business background, she then founded her eponymous label in Nigeria in 2005 for the discerning, stylish and slightly avant garde woman. Lanre is now one of Nigeria’s foremost fashion minds and …
Africa Fashion Week ’09, NKWO
“It all started with an obsession with dolls, and a mother who taught her how to sew. Nkwo Onwuka earned her university degree in psychology, but her love of making pretty things has turned into a thriving fashion business. Her designs are free-spirited and nomadic, inspired by the wild freedom and innovation of the ’60s …
Supermodels Oluchi, Models Ajuma Nasanyana and Millen Magese to Walk Arise Africa Fashion Week 2009
Supermodel Oluchi, Ajuma Nasanyana, Millen Magese and Kate Tachie-Menson are some of the names that will be struting down the runway at the 1st Annual Arise Africa Fashion Week which begins Friday, June 12 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.Other international African and non-African models are expected from the United States, Jamaica, China, Canada, …
Momo Introduces the Nigerian Gele “Proper, Proper” at London Fashion Week
Fati Asibuela, the brain behind the Nigerian fashion label MOMO which showed at New York Fashion Week Fall 2009, is on a roll! Just completing New York Fashion Week, she headed to London Fashion Week to show another collection. While most of the clothing designs remained the same as what she showed in New York, …