Category: Fashion – Textiles
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Gele; popular headdress fashion in Nigeria. Gele was for the fashion divas of the 1950s the ultimate head piece. At no other time did the beauty of the gele become more apparent than in 1960 when Nigeria won her independence. Lagos was agog in 1960 after the independence. Nigerian women, especially Lagosians embraced flamboyant head…
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Deola Sagoe is the frontline Nigerian haute couture designer daughter to Michael Ade Ojo of Elizade Motors. Deola was educated at the University of Miami and University of Lagos with a Masters in Finance and Management before she discovered her passion. Adopting the trade name, O’dua Originals, she made her debut in 1998. Deola became…
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Nike Davies-Okundaye is a Nigerian artist, who from her first solo exhibition at the Goethe Institute, Lagos in 1968 grew to become one of the major imprints on the international art circuits. As a textile designer, Nike brought a vivid imagination as well as a wealth of history and tradition in regulating the production of…