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Deola Sagoe is one of nigeria’s best known fashion designer’s, she won the Best African Designer Award in 2000, in a competition organised by MNET and Anglo Gold, to find African fashion designers to represent the continent at New York’s fashion week. She was nominated by none other than the fashion guru himself, trend Editor-at-Large, Andre Leon Talley. She has had the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith and Samuel L. Jackson attend her fashion shows in the U.S. Deola Sagoe pieces can be likened to individual works of art. She constantly reinvents the wheel with a contemporary African twist. Says Deola “My biggest inspiration is Africa, the different textures, the colours, the culture, the people, the vibe, there’s a lot of passion amidst so much repression. African fabrics are the base charity for her designs, juxtaposing indigenous textures and colours with western silhouettes. |
