Happy international women’s day to all the s-heros in my world👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽 Keep reigning and slaying effortlessly in the face of impossibly odds darlings💋

Our style stars of the week are none other than the natural hair twins and stylistas T.K Wonder and Cipriana Quann. Promoters of natural beauty these twin sisters have built an impressive brand with millions of dedicated followers worldwide off social media. Their uniqueness is their diversity in world where being different isn’t celebrated.

Nigerian models aboard are having a great time dominating the fashion editorial world as since by their presence in top publications edits globally. Nigerian beauty, Ayobami Okekunle is breath-taking   featured in a new beauty editorial which focuses on nails, for CR fashion Book’s twelfth issue. Photographed by Daniel Sannwald and styled by The Style Council Paris, the edits display various nail Avant Garde nail works by Mei Kawajiri.

Nigerians womenswear label Muse Factory, recently unveiled its SS18 collection, titled ‘Effervescence’ .The collection is a journey of discovery into nature, particularly the world of bees, butterflies and wasps. Inspired by the liveliness and vivacity of nature. Each piece in the collection draws inspiration from the insect world. With pieces mirroring the designer’s inferences from macro images of the honey bee, the blue banded bee and the green awlet, each piece is inherently a study of nature.

According to the brand creative director ‘these insects all have very similar yet distinct elements which provided a very clear vision and direction for the collection.
The collection features vibrant statement pieces as well as unique takes on basic pieces, all which are easily wearable and adaptable. The pieces stay true to the brand’s ethos- confidence and effervescence- making this collection perfect for The Muse Factory Woman and her love of self and unmissable sense of style.

Our style star of the week is none other than Fashion-It girl Toke Makinwa, bestselling author of the book ‘On BECOMING’, Television personality, Vlogger, OAP, budding Nollywood star and undisputed glamazion.  Toke Makinwa come under our style radar in 2012 at the Arise Magazine Fashion Week Nigeria where she thrilled us on the carpet interviewing interesting individuals for Flytime, in a monochrome pink sequined skirt and cotton top ensemble. Simple and yet super chic, she caught our interest and since then she has never disappointed.

South African Fashion Design Label Prime Obsession is a brand that sells up-scale, once-off and minimal style thrift clothing. The brand which was founded by best friends Keneilwe Mothoa and Shelley Mokoenahas recently showcased their SS17 collection at the Prime Xperience AFI, a fashion and lifestyle festival part of Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week.
The collection features neutral brown and white palette in unstructured layers, large frills and oversized off-shoulder puff sleeves. According to the dynamic duo who met while studying interior design in university, the collection was inspired by ‘the average black family, the struggle, breaking boundaries and wanting to experience freedom to the fullest’.
Below are pictorials from the Lookbook of the collection shot by Jeffrey Rikhotso @jefflovesphotography

We at the African Designers Mall (ADM) are super excited about our upcoming POP-UP sales event called 15:15, where fashion items will be sold a fashion between N1,500 and N15,000.
The pop up sales will feature top African designers, upcoming designers, Fashion retailers, food drink and hair vendors having massive sales all in one location with numerous buyers shopping in preparation for the Christmas holidays.
Over time, ADM has successfully had POP-UP sales in Lagos, Madagascar, South Africa and Burkina Faso where most of our vendors sold out.
The 2 days Lagos Pop-up sales in December would be no different. The December edition is set to hold on the 16th and 17th of December 2017 at 237 Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. If you’re a vendor and you’ve not booked your stall yet, waste no more time as the stalls are fast selling out.