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The Heineken Lagos Fashion & Design Week event which happened from the 26th – 29th of October 2016, was featured on the Vogue Italia website; putting a number of designers in the spotlight like Onalaja, DNA by Iconic Invanity as “the younger set”, 4 year old brand Style Temple, other popular Nigerian brands like Maki Oh, Lisa Folawiyo & Bridget Awosika and international brands like Naked Ape, David Tlale, Maxhosa (South Africa), Yefikir (Ethiopia), Sophie Zinga(Senegal), Studio 189 (Ghana) and Loza Maleombho (Cote D’Ivoire).
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Another part of the Heineken Lagos Fashion & Design Week event that made a long last impression on everyone who attended, was the About That Curvy Life Collective by Latasha Ngwube. The ATCL Collective was featured on CNN Style in a recent article “Curves steal the spotlight during LFDW”, click here to read all about it.
#ABOUTTHATCURVYLIFE Collective Makes Fashion History At Heineken Lagos Fashion and Design Week
#AboutThatCurvyLife Collective powered by Intel which was the sixth show on the first day of fashion week featuring 4 womenswear designers and the first ever recorded plus size menswear collection on the continent.
The collective was creatively supervised by Godson Ukaegbu, Editor of Style Mania Magazine while the models were trained extensively by veteran model, Andy Ogbechi of A Squared Network.
The Collective show was initiated and executed by media personality/Founder of Aboutthatcurvylife.com, Latasha Ngwube, and was opened by Mabello Clolthier, followed by Tosfa, (broken in-between by menswear brand) Assian, Aisha Abu Bakar Luxury Design and Makioba closed the show.