The November issue of Vanity Fair Italia features an exciting editorial that captures the innovation and freshness coming out of Africa’s fashion industry. Particular fashion homage is paid to designers that showed at the just concluded 2012 MTN Lagos Fashion & Design Week. They include Jewel by Lisa, Tiffany Amber, Anitah Quinsah and Iconic Vanity. …
The Jewel by Lisa (JBL) brand continues to gain momentum this 2012 as more American style aficionados rock JBL. Tai Beauchamp, In Style National Style Correspondent, rocks this beautiful cropped jacket from Jewel by Lisa’s Autumn/Winter 2012 collection to a recent Grammy pre-event. We first saw the jacket on African Supermodel Millen Magese when she modeled …
Congratulations to Nigeria’s Jewel by Lisa, Maki Oh and Andrew Dosunmu who won awards at the just completed 2011 Africa Fashion Awards. The winners were announced at the highly anticipated Africa Fashion Awards, which concluded the runway show at Africa Fashion Week at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, representing the strong emergence of a …
Three of Nigeria’s designers based in Nigeria have been nominated for the 2011 Africa Fashion Awards. They are Jewel by Lisa, Deola Sagoe and Maki Oh. Congratulations to the trio and all nominees. Check out the full list of nominees below: DESIGNER OF THE YEAR – AFRICA 1. Deola Sagoe 2. David Tlale 3. Kluk …
“She is the founder and creative director of Jewel by Lisa, a brand that specialises in Ankara textiles, the vibrant wax-resist dyed fabrics characteristic of West Africa and widely used across the continent. These clothes, originally based on traditional Indonesian batik and formerly known as Dutch wax, have been popular in Nigeria for generations. “Our …