FADE OGUNRO COVERS LOOT MAGAZINE

The fabulous Lagos fashion and lifestyle Multi-brand concept store, L'Espace has launched it's own Digital Magazine!

The digimag which has been christened as 'The Loot' is an amazing collection of new trends, new muses, new designers and all the awesome things that make for a fantastic wardrobe.

The debut edition of The Loot takes readers through a mind and fashion journey with the OAP Fade Ogunro, who spills her gut (metaphorically speaking, of course) on women, fashion, business, family and pursuing happiness.

L'Espace is the biggest contemporary luxury fashion, beauty and lifestyle store in the country, they continue to explore and promote African fashion in innovative ways. The multi-brand concept store was established in December 2012 by the co-founders, Isoken Ogiemwonyi and Wonuola Okoye, to push the boundaries of fashion retail in Nigeria and eventually the African continent.

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ISOKEN OGIEMWONYI'S OBSIDIAN'S NEW COLLECTION TAGGED WANDERLUST

 Young , sassy and sexy designer Isoken Ogiemwonyi has just released her new collection for the Spring/Summer 2013. That's an early release we are sure you all wondering. 

The collection is tagged ''Wanderlust'',  it's the same colection that the young designer showcased at last year's MTN Lagos Fashion & Design Week 2012. 

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ISOKEN OGIEMWONYI BAGS AWARD

Isoken Ogeiwmonyi, the creative director of Obsidian and co-founder of retail brands, Le Petit Marche (a monthly shopping event in Lagos, Nigeria) and L’Espace (multi-brand concept store) was awarded the 2012 MTN Lagos Fashion & Design Week/British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur of the Year.
Speaking on the win, Isoken Ogeiwmonyi said “MTNLFDW has created a great platform for Nigerian creative Entrepreneurs and it’s an honour to be recognized for my contributions as an Entrepreneur. It is a huge accomplishment for LPM and L’Espace and we hope both brands continue to add value to its stakeholders.”
The win comes with a N2, 000,000 cash prize and a Tour of London Fashion Week courtesy British Council.

LPM and L’Espace were created as a fashion and lifestyle retail solution in Nigeria to help streamline and simplify the process of getting African made/owned fashion and lifestyle brands to their target consumer. In line with this, there are plans to expand LPM and L’Espace to other States in Nigeria and extend the L’Espace offering. The L’Espace Beauty Bar which will house beauty, skincare and haircare brands, as well as beauty services
spanning blowdries, skin and body treatments and nail art and Café “The Oasis at L’Espace” are set to open in six months in their flagship store in Victoria Island, Lagos.
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OUT & ABOUT AT THE AMFW 2012- WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE 1ST DAY

Waoh!!!!, This year's edition of the Arise Magazine Fashion Week 2012, has come and gone and the memories of all the happenstances and the showcase would linger on for many days, weeks and months till the next event in 2013.

We are not quite sure yet, if the next edition of the fashion week (2013) would be in Lagos, as we hear that many are already bidding for it to come to them- Cape Town etc, but wherever it may hold, we are sure it would be a much better event than the out gone one. This was a great success though.

For the designers that showcased-77 in all, an unprecedented number at that, it was a platform to either showcase their extraordinary talent and launch them towards unprecedented success, while for a few of them, it was obvious they still needed to fine-tune those talents as their showcase showed they still needed a bit of mentoring and maturing.

At the end of it all, the organizers of the event- ARISE MAGAZINE under the able leadership of Prince Nduka Obaigbena- the one and only Duke of Journalism must be commended for doing their best, in spite of all they had to overcome to bring to all a great event or fashion week. It’s not an easy thing to put together events of this caliber where nearly everything that should be standard had to be provided, most importantly-POWER (Electricity).

The first day of the event could not happen because of some technical hitches, also the Nigerian models nearly held the organizers to ransom over payment disparity (they thought the amount to be paid the international models against theirs was totally out of order), but thank God for the quick thinking intervention of some, the revolt was quickly nipped in the bud and the instigators were quietly weeded out. It’s better not to dwell on the little hitches here and there during the fashion week, but better to talk about the many good points of the fashion week and those were too numerous to mention, and we will try our best to touch on as many as possible.

In this report, we are showcasing a bit of the backstage preparation- make-up, hair and fittings, some pictures of some fashionistas on the red-carpet and generally out and about everywhere on the day that should have been the 1st day of the fashion week.

Enjoy!!!

CHANTELLE UNACHUKWU

ISOKEN OGIEMWONYI & WONU ODUNSI

PLAYBOY MODEL-TISHA MARIE

TOYIN LAWANI OF ELAGANTE

FATIMA GARBA & LATASHA NGWUBE OF VANGUARD ALLURE

HAUWA & HELEN JENNINGS EDITOR OF ARISE MAGAZINE

PHUNAFRIQUE'S FUNKE & FRIEND