Omoyemi Akerele founder of Style House Files and the just concluded MTN Lagos Fashion & Design Week was recently quoted in the New York Times, as part of the newspaper’s coverage of the IHT Luxury Conference held in Rome. “ROME — Has Africa’s golden moment arrived? For the gurus of the luxury world, the …
Designer Kiki Kamanu promised something different for her Spring/Summer 2013 collection at MTN Lagos Fashion & Design Week, and she indeed delivered. For starters, we loved her tank tops that bore subtle branding of the label and the label’s message. Kamanu then followed up with wearable art that was fresh, cosmopolitan, cool and sensuous. We …
The Iconic Invanity Spring/Summer 2012 collection, at the just concluded MTN Lagos Fashion & Design Week, ranks as one of the best collections we have seen coming out of all of the runways from New York to Paris, London to South Africa and Lagos, so far. Almost every piece shown on the runway created a …
Akpos Okudu, for its MTN Lagos Fashion & Design Week Spring/Summer 2013 showed she could put a well constructed garment together. However, the designer needed to show her versatility through her design hand by clearly defining the Akpos Okudu woman. The color palette could have been more refreshing and happy, consistent with Spring. We also …
The designers at the Republic of Foreigner had an intense fascination with animal prints for Spring/Summer 2013. However, what they were clever in doing for their Spring collection was to keep the delivery of that fascination light, alluring, feminine, playful and sexy. Animal prints were seen on silk fabrics that maintained fluid movements on the …
We loved everything about the Re Bahia collection: the fabrics, color choices and beautiful silhouettes with design details referencing a masculine meets feminine world; and the gorgeous yet modern and sporty interpretation of red, white and black pinstripes in beautiful fitted dresses. Our favorite design, however, has got to be the black silk full skirt …