[Latest] Nigerian Fashion and Style 2017-2018 Trends For All
Ladies, let us have a meeting at this round table I will be shaking. Apologies to those that might be on the table…let us talk fashion and style.
What is fashion and style? What is style? What is fashion? Are they the same? What’s the difference? Hm…Do sit back and read what this humble table shaker has got to say.
Fashion is style, a trend of style. Style is who you are, your individuality, your personality.
Okay, jollof rice is jollof rice, right? But what makes party jollof rice different? Especially the one cooked with firewood.
Are you getting it now? If you do not, pause make a note to get a party jollof rice to eat and cook another at home or buy somewhere and eat that same day to note the difference.
All the same let us proceed.
Nigerian Fashion and Style 2017 Trends of All Time
They say you are fashionable or know fashion when you are wearing what is in vogue or in season but they say you have got style when you add yourself all over what you are wearing.
Fashion switches with season but style is influenced by how factors like moral upbringing, religion, association with others, weather, etc. has affected you. No wonder Yves Saint Laurent said “fashion fades, style is eternal”.
Jill Chivers says “fashion distracts, style connects”. The reason why fashion icons are who they are today is because of how they have created their own style from fashion and the funny thing is not all fashion designers are fashion icons but anybody can be a fashion icon.
Gone were the days when the western fashion was what we emulated and we were satisfied with sewing our natives with limited styles. You should check my list of top Nigerian native attire styles for inspiration.
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It isn’t the same anymore, thanks to our designers like Mia Atafo, Toju Foyeh, Lanre Dasilva Ajayi, and Ceoluminee amongst others.
These designers have defined what fashion and style is about using our ankara prints and other materials to create mind-blowing designs.
They have connected the external fashion with our internal style which has improved the Nigerian fashion industry.
Check out my list of top fashion schools in Lagos if you’re interested in learning fashion design in Nigeria. And also, you’ll be in capable hands if you attend any of the makeup schools in Lagos, that’s if you want to be a makeup artist.
Latest Nigerian Fashion Styles for Ladies 2018
Talking about Nigerian fashion styles for ladies, Ankara wears comes to mind. Ankara was not African-born even though it looks the opposite as we have colonized it (i see you o, oya please close your mouth).
I did grow up seeing Ankara around me, my mother used it to back me when I was young and I also used it as cover cloth (thanks to our mothers that sew iro and buba then).
Ankara was useful for many things don’t get me wrong it is still useful. I even tie it to the bathroom as my towel (don’t wrinkle your nose, i no say no be only me waka come).
Possibly, the familiarization of Ankara and the assurance of its presence made some of us think or gave some of us the impression it originated in Africa. Let me take you back in time.
Once upon the 1800s, the Dutch colonised Indonesia for colonising sake (I don’t know the reason they colonised them). The Indonesians had an advanced method, an upgrade, of dyeing which they used to produce batik.
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