Events, News

YNaija Person of the Year: Omoyemi Akerele, Davido, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, D'Banj & More Make the Nominees List!

And the 2012 YNaija Person of the Year Is… Ezekwesili, Okonjo-Iweala, Bakare, D’banj & more make the list! It’s that time of the year when YNaija.com, the Internet Newspaper for Young Nigerians, chooses its Person of the Year. As always, following from the tradition of the TIME Person of the Year, the recognition is focused …

Business

VIDEO: IHT Luxury Conference 2012: Suzy Menkes Speaks to Duro Olowu & Omoyemi Akerele #IHTLux

Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune Fashion Editor, Omoyemi Akerele, Style House Files Creative and Managing Director, and Duro Olowu speak during the second day of the 2012 International Herald Tribune’s Luxury Business Conference held at Rome Cavalieri on November 15, 2012 in Rome, Italy. The 12th annual IHT Luxury conference is the premier meeting point …

Business

Fashion Business: SHF’s Omoyemi Akerele Quoted in New York Times – Fashion Weighs a Deeper Investment in Africa

  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 …

Events, News

Video: MTN Lagos Fashion and Design Week Auditions with Omoyemi Akerele and Bola Balogun

Fashion stylist Omoyemi Akerele teams up with long time business affiliate Bola Balogun to present the video clips of the MTN Lagos Fashion and Design Week auditions. The audition took place in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. Invited guests included fashion designers Bisola Edun of Tae and Folake Folarin-Coker of Tiffany Amber. Fashion media included …

Fashion

MTN Lagos Fashion & Design Week 2011-#Omoyemi Akerele #Buy Nigerian

LadybrilleNigeria.com is particularly proud of lawyer turned fashion entrepreneur Omoyemi Akerele who has been actively pushing and using all of her network and resources to build a cohesive Nigerian Fashion Industry. Akerele began with her #Buy Nigerian initiative on Style House Files, she then brought us the interesting documentary and joint venture with the manufacturers …