ABOUT ELITE MODEL LOOK

Elite model management remains at the forefront of the industry and has launched the careers of celebrities such as our very own Oluchi Orlando, Gisele Bundchen, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford, Demi Moore, Cameron Diaz, Andie McDowell, Linda Evangelista, Heidi Klum, and Claudia Schiffer. Each year, the Elite Model Look competition sees over 350,000 female contestants between Age 14 to 23, attending national casting held in over 80 countries around the world.

The group clientele spans includes leading fashion houses and famous individuals, including Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Versace, L’Oreal, Vogue, Elle and many more…

From a rigorous selection progress, at least one contestant in each country is elected. In the National Final and gets to participate in the main event: the international final, with $325,000 of modeling contract at stake.

Criteria For Registration

-A Nigerian female citizen

-Height – 172cm

-Age 14-23

-Must have no signed contract with any Agency in Nigeria (Very important)

-Must be ready to travel abroad

-A genuine interest a modeling career.

-Must speak English

How To Enter

Pick up a form from any Ecobank branch nationwide

Registration fee is – N5, 000( Five thousand naira only)

Prizes

The winner of Elite model look gets a chance to win a modeling contract with Elite model Management Paris.

All expense paid trip to New York

Opportunity to represent Nigeria at the Elite Model Look Finale in Cape Town South Africa October 2010

Also a chance to win 150,000 dollars at the international finals In Cape Town

ABOUT TRACY OYENKACHUKWU – ELITE MODEL NIGERIA 2008

Tracy Oyenkachukwu, the first ever elite Model from Nigeria in 2008, in less than 7months of moving to London, has worked with Top designers, magazines and fashion shows etc. Recently she participated in London, Cophegan and Paris fashion week. She has since signed into two agencies one in London and the other in Paris, confirming the third agency in New York in a few weeks.

ABOUT ANNETTE BEGG- ELITE MODEL NIGERIA 2009

This Edo born native from the Oredo tribe, was raised by her family in Lagos 17 years ago. Today, Annette is Nigeria’s Elite model ambassador, a beacon of hope to young African girls despite her skin shade. During her reign, Annette grace both the covers and pages of high fashion gloss magazines , some of which are Thisday style, Genevie magazine , Elan, true love etc. She was also actively involved in various fashion event with top Nigerian designers. Soon to be leaving the shores of Nigeria to further her studies in New york, Annette would also be pursuing her career in the modelling industry while away.

Ace photographer Ade Plumptre will be in there to capture portrait photos of the finished look. BM Pro is also having its first ever mega sale with items discounted as low as 70%. This event takes place March 12th-14th, 2010 BM Pro Ikoyi Mall Make Up Studio.

Light cocktail and refreshments will be served.

For more info, contact morsipr@gmail.com.

Secretary Clinton will introduce an exclusive one-night reading at the Hudson Theatre of SEVEN, the documentary play created for Vital Voices Global Partnership to honor the courage of brave female activists from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Guatemala, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, and Russia.

Okereke is one of seven acclaimed actors who has volunteered her time to dramatize the issues highlighted in the play. The complete list  includes Meryl Streep who heads the line-up, Marcia Gay Harden, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Archie Panjabi, Julyana Soelistyo and Lauren Velez. The reading is directed by celebrated Broadway director Julie Taymor in an evening made possible by HP. Visit SEVEN.org for more information and to purchase tickets.

Congratulations to Ms. Okereke for volunteering her time to be a part of very important play and history.

“FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit and the U.S. State Department established the Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership in May 2006. This public-private partnership places talented, emerging women leaders from all over the world in mentoring programs with FORTUNE’s Most Powerful Women Leaders.

The three-phase program opens with an orientation session in Washington, D.C., where the participants meet with senior women in government, academia and business. The international participants are then paired with one of FORTUNE’s Most Powerful Women Leaders from companies like Time Inc., Avon, Wal-Mart, and Exxon Mobil in cities across the United States. For three weeks, American and international participants work together in mentoring relationships to share the skills and experiences necessary for strengthening women’s leadership. The program concludes in New York City, where the participants have meetings with Goldman Sachs and Solera Capital.

There are now 116 FORTUNE/State Department alumnae around the world. The next FORTUNE program is slated to take place from April 26 – May 21, 2010. Aproximately thirty-five mentees, each nominated by the U.S. Embassy in their home country, are expected to participate.”

A true pioneer in Nigeria’s beauty industry, the beauty mogul established House of TARA International (H.O.T) in 1998, a beauty company serving the needs of Nigeria’s corporate professionals and everyday woman. Soon after, she launched TARA Orekelewa cosmetics and followed up with a fragrance line, ‘Be Inspired.’ Amidst all of Tara’s entrepreneur ventures, Tara has managed to train over 400 young women at House of Tara International.

LadybrilleNigeria salutes and wishes Tara and the H.O.T. team continued success!______________________________________
Ladybrille®Nigeria Industry Moves highlights Nigeria’s fashion business moves made by industry professionals. If you have been promoted, starting a new business, rebranding, acquiring new businesses and want to share your industry move, please e-mail us at info@ladybrillenigeria.com.

Eyola like Jewel by Lisa and Tiffany Amber, showed at Arise Africa Fashion Week last year. To read about Eyola, click here.

~Photocredit: Simon Deiner

The Future Project Nigeria , organisers of The Future Awards, finds it necessary to make a public statement clarifying that it is no way associated with a group called The Future Nigeria group (FNG), which has recently expressed support for aides of the president whose actions have essentially subverted the constitution.   

Amongst other thing, this organisation, which claims to be speaking for young people, has said that ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua did not commit any offence or breach the constitution by not appearing in public five days after his return from Saudi Arabia . The group also says that there is no crisis in the country and commended the wife to the president, Turai Yar’Adua, for her conduct in the past few months.   

“Whilst we agree with their constitutional rights in making these statements, we make bold to disagree sharply with their comments, as we strongly believe that there is a cabal around the Presidency that has been working against the interests of Nigerians,” said the project’s creative director, Chude Jideonwo. “We find it necessary to make this bold dissociation after we received very concerned mails from young people, our partners and other stakeholders who wondered if our values have changed.”  

The Future Project expressed its surprise at the actions and the formation of this group as The Future Nigeria is a registered trademark of The Future Project. TheFutureNigeria.com is also their registered website. They therefore characterised this appropriation by FNG, which is headed by a former adviser to President Obasanjo, as a deliberate ploy to employ the goodwill and the relationship of trust they have built with the Nigerian public to serve narrow interests.    

“For the avoidance of doubt, The Future Project joins the overwhelming majority of young people in expressing outrage at the events of the past few months,” Jideonwo said. “It appears that the president is incapable of discharging the functions of his office, and in that case, the executive council of the federation should urgently so declare, so that we can go beyond this constitutional crisis. We cannot understand why, instead of concentrating on the fuel crisis, electoral reform and electricity, our leaders are instead focused only on feathering their nests. Enough is enough!”   

According to them, they have initiated moves with relevant government agencies to clarify how this conflict in names could arise in the first place, and assured followers and other well meaning Nigerians that they remain resolutely committed to the Nigerian enterprise and have no intentions of aligning ourselves with corrupted values or any process not founded on integrity, good conscience and the development of the youth.   

“This has in fact also challenged us to mobilise young Nigerians to send a clear message to the government and politicians that enough is indeed, enough,” Jideonwo added.    

The Future Project, which has strong presence in at least 8 states of the federation and 3 countries outside Nigeria , is the organiser of the yearly The Future Awards, which has distinguished itself as Nigeria ’s most respected youth event. The last edition held in February in Lagos . The Keynote Speaker was the World Bank managing director, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Other guests included the first lady of Lagos State , Abumbola Fashola, the deputy governor, Sarah Bisi Sosan, Prof. Pat Utomi, Prof. Dora Akunyili, amongst others.  

The Lagos Carnival 2010 takes place over the Easter Weekend in April 2010. The following events make up the Lagos Carnival 2010:

Saturday 3rd April 2010 – Miss Lagos Carnival Beauty Pageant & Gala Dinner
Monday 5th April – Children’s Carnival
Monday 5th April 2010 – Adult’s Carnival

For more info. including to apply to compete in the beauty pageant, visit lagoscarnival.com.

3rd Annual Lagos Black Heritage Festival

Place: Badagry Township, Lagos, Badagry

Date: April 4th, 2010

“For over a millennium, African indigenes South of the Sahara have been hunted, bartered, and sold into slavery by European and Arab slavers,  often, alas, with the active connivance and participation of Africans themselves. Millions perished even before destination along the Trans-Atlantic route, the Trans-Saharan route, and the Indian Ocean route to Iraq and Persia, now known as Iran.

 For centuries, and even till today, many could neither recall nor manifest the slightest interest in their antecedents. By contrast, especially since the latter half of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of descendants of the victims of this execrable commerce have embarked on the return journey home – some in search of their true origins, others in the spirit of a symbolic pilgrimage, and yet others to re-claim and re-settle in their ancestral space.  Whichever way, for many, this has proved an emotional but fulfilling experience. 

It was in fulfillment of this yearning for the healing of dislocated sense of identity that the Lagos State government instituted, with the support of UNESCO, the Black Heritage Festival in the symbolic town of Badagry, one of the more infamous departure points, with surviving landmarks, a Festival that seeks to enshrine the place of Memory in the history of peoples, and to celebrate survival and the resilience of the human will.

The third, 2010 edition of this Festival, appropriately billed as MEMORY AND PERFORMANCE IN THE RETURN TO SOURCE, is planned to raise this awareness to new heights, broaden and deepen the linkage between the African continent and its Diaspora. . .”

Visit Lagos Black Heritage Festival.org  for more info.

Designers/Design brands so far are:
Tiffany Amber (Nigeria)
Jewel by Lisa (Nigeria)
MOMO (Nigeria)
David Tlale (South Africa)
Kluk CGDT (South Africa)
Lunar (South Africa)
Christie Brown (Ghana)