LITERARY WORKS

Bespoke Tailoring In Nigeria

We all know the scene. A dapper middle aged man, strong, imposing and slightly graying enters a nondescript store: small but impeccably maintained and furnished. He’s greeted by an attendant who takes his coat and ushers him into a back room where his measurements are taken by the adept hands of a master tailor. This is the mainstream perception of bespoke tailoring and as fanciful as it seems it’s not completely wrong. (more…)

LITERARY WORKS, NEWS

What Is ALARA Lagos Annual Revenue Or Are They In Debt?

So if you are part of my gang of Instagram admirers (#stalkers) of The Polo Avenue handle, by now you would have gotten used to seeing scandals with N800,000 prices tags, sunglasses and belts that cost half a Million Naira and so on.  The Polo Avenue website might be an empty shell of some sought, really have no words to describe the front end of the site but they only stock few designers mostly foreign and definitely no Nigerian designer, so obliviously the carter to few clients and have a small profit margin compared to bigger guys like ALARA.  (more…)

LITERARY WORKS

Three New ‘Harry Potter’ Stories from J.K. Rowling Coming This Autumn

  In 2007, many Harry Potter fans were prepared for the final book to be “The End,” even with the series’ author, J.K. Rowling, stating the story would conclude with book seven, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Since then we have seen a number of stories on the companion website Pottermore, a real-life version of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, an upcoming Potter-world film trilogy Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and a new play titled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The later was not written by Rowling herself, but the script turned novel was rele

FASHION, LITERARY WORKS

4 Pictures to prove that Sunday service is the biggest fashion event in Nigeria

I maybe trying to call myself a fashion blogger (lmao) outside the four corners of my parents house, but my all seeing mum knows that I can bring out an old cloth from the laundry basket, wear it and go out without ironing it (big shame).  The only difference for me during sunday service is that the clothes i would wear (hardly go for service) is that, it would be clean. Even when I was the 2016 African Fashion Week Nigeria, I wore the same clothes for three days!   (more…)