Nigeria’s beauty industry genealogy would be incomplete without Tara Fela Durotoye. Durotoye, attorney turned makeup artist and serial entrepreneur, is the managing and creative director for House of Tara International, Nigeria’s first makeup school company established to elevate the beauty [...]

African models are at the heart of its thriving fashion industry. Iman, Liya Kebede, Alek Wek are some of the names that really showed Africans are fashionable. Similarly, on the international and local scene, Nigerian models are painting the world [...]

Lanre Da Silva Ajayi is a designer whose point of view can easily be misunderstood in a place like Nigeria without the right models, hair, makeup and the right platform to make every element of her designs come to life. [...]

Imagine starting a business when the word ‘entrepreneur’ especially ‘fashion entrepreneur’ sounded very foreign to Nigerians. That is precisely what Nike Ogunlesi, founder and CEO of Ruff n Tumble did.  “I started in 1996, I was selling from the back of my [...]

South Africa owned, Nigerian managed ‘The Palms Shopping Mall’ launched in 2005 is a major contributor to changing retail distribution and ultimately the retail experience for Nigerians, particularly the growing middle class to affluent. The Mall’s opening provided significant channels [...]

Personalities like Coco Chanel, Elizabeth Arden, Max factor and Estee lauder paved the way for designer driven cosmetics and fragrances in the USA and worldwide. Likewise, new Nigerian entrepreneurs like Banke Meshida Lawal,Toni Payne-Akande and Tara Fela-Durotoye are attempting to mirror [...]

For too long, Nigeria’s Clothing [Design] and Textile industry has remained a stricken giant locally and globally. It is time to fix the giant. Within the past five years, when it comes to fashion, Nigeria has, arguably, experienced tremendous growth. [...]