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]]>Collection Profile: Silk Bloom
This collection comes from the beauty of raw silk and its richness which is used in African homes to exude class and beauty. From dupion to organza, satin, taffeta to chiffon. In the words of the designers, “We explored the northern parts of Nigeria to find the best of the best. This capsule collection was curated to introduce luxury into the retail market. With an eye for embellishments and fine silk, we have made magic. Tap into the seasons silk bloom and experience quality per excellence. We were inspired by the wealth of culture in the north. How the women wore their head pieces with so much grace and class, their silk wrappers adorned in embellishments and stones. And the men gaintly dressed neatly in all white from top to bottom in the purest and finest of silks. From our ready to wear turban scarves to the domed shaped hats, our collection is infused with great wealth and richness in culture.”
ABOUT THE BRAND
Mode L’absolu is coined from the French language, meaning Complete Fashion. As the name implies, MLA encompasses complete elegance. By truly understanding the human anatomy, we are able to create simply exceptional tailoring. More than fashion, we always look to improve and inspire our community by actively lending a voice and giving back to the community around us. We make sure anyone and everyone has an equal chance to discover all the amazing potentials they can reach. Be who they want to be no matter who they are or where they come from or what looks they decide to boss up! We exist to give you the confidence to be whoever you want to be. The freedom to be unapologetically YOU!
Check Out Photos from the Collection Below:
Credit
Instagram: @mlartw
Models – Lemide & Wole
Pr – @morsipr
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]]>1) Toke Makinwa Getting Valentine’s Day Ready
What’s not to love about a classy closet look. Want that perfect final look before wearing that robe for Valentine’s dinner? This is a look to inspire you.
2) Stephanie Coker the Valentine’s Love Doctor
Channeling the love doctor vibes, Stephanie kept it simple as she also shares this beautiful post about her husband.
Here’s the love note Stephanie Coker shared about her husband, Olumide Aderinokun.
3) Tolani Baj
When is it a crime to spend February the 14th alone? This melanin beauty took spending Valentine’s day alone, to another level of dripping goddess. You can call it self-love day.
4) Erica Nlewedim
Did someone say Ballons and lingerie for Valentine? Yes Please.
5) Beverly Osu
Finally, not the least but a favorite is the look Beverly Osu served us. All the melanin goodness and gosh! What’s not to love about this beauty? In her words… “Love and Chocolate.”
PS: Always remember your happiness matters first.
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]]>Red Edit Magazine: Can you give the readers a bit of information about who you are and what you do?
Seyi Babatope: My name is Seyi Babatope, I’m a film director and screenwriter. I’m a producer because I have to be not because I want to be and I tell stories for a living.
Red Edit Magazine: You say you are a producer because you have to be, what does that mean?
Seyi Babatope: In order for my vision to be realized, I have to do many things that cannot be delegated. And if I try to delegate, it would not materialize. I have to make sure it fits the vision and the vision is not polluted.
Red Edit Magazine: How did you get into storytelling? Have you always been a storyteller?
Seyi Babatope: From as far as I can remember, storytelling is what I’ve always wanted to do and what I’m good at apart from playing basketball. I went to school and I have a degree in cinema and television arts from California State University. So this is the only thing I’ve wanted to do in my life that I feel could help me be a functioning and contributing adult to society, be useful to myself and anyone that surrounds me. It’s the only passion in my life that burns so intensely and cannot be extinguished by anything.
Red Edit Magazine: Where did you grow up?
Seyi Babatope: I grew up in both Nigeria and the US. I grew up in Nigeria as a child and moved and had my adult life in the US. I worked in Hollywood as a production assistant. I’ve done everything in Production from being an errand boy to a camera assistant. So I grew up doing jobs around music video sets, commercials, and all other stuff.
Red Edit Magazine: What made you decide to come to Nollywood?
Seyi Babatope: It was not a decision to come back and do anything. There’s a music artist that I had done a music video for in Los Angeles that had come back here and won an award when channel O was the thing. I came for a vacation in Nigeria and people were talking about me and my work, so I started music video works for an artist in Nigeria and that led to me doing some television work. Somehow along the way, I found it more constructive to be here and that’s how it happened. I didn’t even know what I was coming back to so I’ll not be honest with your readers if I say, I knew what I was coming back to. I didn’t know at all.
Red Edit Magazine: Now you’re fully in Nollywood, how has the journey been so far?
Seyi Babatope: Up and down. I don’t really know… I’m not trying to tell you everything is rosy and great always because that’s not true at all. Nollywood is a complicated place with complicated people and complicated processes. Nollywood is not a place for artistry to really exist. It’s a place to make money so it’s easy for things that are truly artistic gems not to be seen here because there’s no value for them. Everything is about how much a person makes which is fine but when I think of other film communities, there’s placement. Like what Chimamanda says about the power of a single story and how dangerous that is. I think Nollywood can be a very dangerous place because of how a single narrative can be very prevalent.
Red Edit Magazine: It’s interesting that you would talk about the danger of a single story when the average filmmaker would look at you and feel you have made it, you can pull together an amazing cast but you are still talking about the limited opportunities…
Seyi Babatope: I understand the unique position that puts me in. I know how I sound when people hear me. I know what they really hear is an accent. That accent they hear makes everything obsolete and they don’t want to listen because what they hear is privileged and elitist. So whatever substantial thing I want to say is not important. No matter what message I’m saying because it comes in my package, people tend to ignore it because to them why is it important when he’s one of them, and they are so wrong. I have had to work my way from the ground up. I wouldn’t even know if I’d say I’ve made it. The people who worked with me on Sanitation Day did so because of the worth of my work and what they’ve seen. It’s not because I could pay more. I’m sure they made way more money from other productions. It’s just based on their trust in my ability to make a good movie.
Red Edit Magazine: How did the idea and the title for Sanitation Day come about? It’s such a catchy title, so what was the deciding factor?
Seyi Babatope: Thank you. To be honest, the Sanitation Day idea started in 2015. It came out based on the frustration I was going through. I started hearing lots of chatter after I had just finished when love happens again and they kept telling me the movie was not Nigerian enough. I had shot the movie in DC and the comment was that the film was too pretty, too elitist, and just had fine people. The comments drove me crazy because to me all I wanted to know is if it was a good movie. They said it was a good movie but it was far from what Nollywood is. They made me feel like an outcast so I said to myself, I need to find a story that can be some WAZOBIA thing. That was the first move on the chessboard. I needed to make the razzest film I could ever make maybe then they’ll shut up with the elitist comments. I wanted to make a very local story. A year had gone by and I had to install a new gate. The guy that was fixing my gate, a welder named Sunny calls me and says he broke the lock to the gate of the famous Ikoyi home where money in different currencies was found. The police showed up at his shop and needed a welder so he was the one who broke the locks so the police could have access to the house. Sunny came back with the video and they had only given him 15000 Naira. Sunny had seen more money in his life than I or most people had ever seen. Then the other idea stuck to me because it was just an ordinary house packed full of more money than anyone would ever see in their lives. That was the second piece on the chessboard. Then around that time, they had abolished Sanitation Day. From there that’s how I built off Sanitation Day.
Red Edit Magazine: What were the challenges you faced making Sanitation Day?
Seyi Babatope: We wrote the screenplay in 2017. Tried to make it so many times but it didn’t happen. They were people trying to sabotage the film as well. I was constantly fighting so many moving targets to make matters worse, when we started filming, the pandemic happened. Everything was such a big deal because of the pandemic. Nse Ikpe Etim, God bless her, was so helpful. . The day Nse got herself to Lagos from London was the day the airport got shut down. She had to get tested, quarantined until we were able to shoot. I was so cranky. The house we shot in had been abandoned for 15 years so we had to fix it. It was challenging to get to the sweet spot of getting what I had to do done and not let certain things get to me.
Red Edit Magazine: Detaching yourself from the film you’ve made, why would you say people should go see Sanitation Day?
Seyi Babatope: I think it’s a good movie.if people want to watch what is not typical of what Nollywood makes. The big thing is done even with the language and stereotypes. I hope people see how stereotypes are really a distraction. I hope people see the common sense of purpose. I hope people see that there’s more that unites us than divides us. So I want people to go support the film Sanitation Day. Good arts beget good arts. We are more than a single story. If people support sanitation day, we’d be able to break that single story.
Sanitation Day is out so you can go see it here!
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]]>Red Edit: How would you introduce yourself?
Ola Dozie: My name is Olamide Chiedoziem. I am a 20-year-old fashion model. I am a student who is signed to MyBookerModels Nigeria.
Red Edit: How did your journey into the world of modeling start?
Ola Dozie: I wasn’t desperate going into modeling. I was scouted by a fashion designer who wanted me to work for his brand. The shoot never happened, but in my mind, I knew modeling was something that I could do. However, I didn’t put attention to it until I officially got scouted. Luckily a friend had sent my picture to a friend of theirs who was a model scout, and I was signed to her agency, Gemian model agency in Benin, Nigeria.
Red Edit: So far what brands have you worked with?
Ola Dozie: My mother agency is MyBookerModels which is here in Nigeria. I am signed to IMG London, including Independence Milan and Select Paris. I have worked for Arise fashion week, GTB fashion week, Lagos Fashion Week, Jreason, Westminster, Chalayan, Mai Atafo, Orange Culture, Nobel Couture Paris, amongst others.
Red Edit: Asides from modeling what else are you passionate about?
Ola Dozie: I am a student, I study Criminology and Security Studies at the National Open University. Psychology is something I am interested in. My mom is a psychologist, and the interest grew from there. I find psychology very interesting. If I wasn’t modeling, I would have been fully into the psychology world.
Red Edit: What advice would you have for people seriously looking to be into the world of modeling?
Ola Dozie: Don’t be too desperate about it. Once you have the look, and what the scouts are looking for, they would definitely find you. Just put yourself in positions to be found. Go for Castings, go for casting calls. When agencies arrange for scouting calls like that, make yourself available. Work on yourself because different types of modeling have different types of requirements. Know the type of modeling you are going into. If it is high fashion, know the body standard so work towards it. Work on your skin. Basically, stay fit, work on your body, and just keep pushing.
Red Edit: What advice would you have for those that are desperate, and want to do modeling without restrictions on what type of modeling they are allowed to do. People that are seriously passionate about modeling but don’t meet the extreme body standards of modeling, what is your advice for them?
Ola Dozie: As I said, don’t be desperate, there are different types of modeling. It is mostly high fashion that has these strict requirements where you can’t be below a certain height, and you have to be extremely skinny to a point. Regardless of all that, if your face is really good, people bring you into fashion without minding that you don’t fit the other standards, but it all depends on you. For people like that, they were still found, they weren’t desperate. You shouldn’t be desperate if you know you want to model. Just find the modeling you fit into, there’s fitness modeling, commercial modeling, amongst others. Look into the types of modeling, see what works for you, push your way to start, and keep pushing from there.
Red Edit: What is the work culture overseas like, compared to the work culture here in Nigeria?
Ola Dozie: To be Honest, Models are treated better abroad. They are respected more and are treated better in every way. During shoots in Nigeria, people look at the designer but don’t regard the models, they act like the models are just objects. In Nigeria, basic welfare plans for other production members during shoots are not allocated to models sometimes. Models are not paid well in Nigeria compared to model’s abroad. Working abroad is every model’s dream. The way Nigeria is set up, we are breaking past the norm because a lot of professions like modeling do not thrive here. However, we are getting better, and people are beginning to see that modeling is a serious profession.
Red Edit: The average Nigerian Parent would never take modeling as a career seriously. So how was the experience with your parents considering the fact you were still in school?
Ola Dozie: When I first told my parents about modeling, they were not open-minded about it. They were concerned it would clash with my school. They felt like modeling is something someone should take as a hobby, not a full-time career. They failed to understand that modeling is a full-time job people live off from. So I would still get the be serious with your life talk. Meanwhile abroad, modeling is what people use to be serious with their lives. My parents only took me seriously when I won the dare to dream competition. When they saw the possibilities and results as I left Nigeria for the first time as part of the prizes of winning, they started being convinced. However, not everyone has that opportunity. A lot of people still see it as a hobby. Modeling is made fun of a lot when it comes to making your Parents understand how this means a lot to you.
Red Edit: How would you advise anyone going through the troubles of making their parents see modeling as a career to handle their parents?
Ola Dozie: I have a model manager who does this for a lot of people he scouts. He goes to the Parents, explains, and shows them the opportunity at hand. A lot of parents don’t understand this. There are so many stereotypes about models being irresponsible, amongst others. You have to show them models are beyond this stereotype. At the end of the day, it is still up to the model. I know models that wouldn’t even let their parents know that they are in this profession until there’s evidence that something tangible would come out of it. They would sneak out for shows until they get to the point they are making waves, then they tell their parents. By then, the models are on billboards, and big screens so it is easier to convince the parents with results. If you let your parents know and they still decide to say no, it is up to the model to follow their parent’s principles or do it behind their backs.
Red Edit: What would you like to implement in the modeling industry when it comes to the working culture in Nigeria?
Ola Dozie: First off, models should be respected. They should start seeing models as a bonafide members of the creative team, not just sidelines. We are growing bigger, people need to have open minds and understand us more.
Red Edit: As a young person trying to balance school, a modeling career, amongst others, what are the challenges you face, and how do you overcome them?
Ola Dozie: Joggling school and modeling when I first started were very hard. The Dare to Dream competition happened to collide with my exams. I was first in FUTA, Nigeria, and being a model messed up my schedule. I missed some exams, I traveled out around the time I had to write another semester exam so it messed my grades up pretty bad, so I had to drop out. It was really challenging because dropping out of school isn’t something that your parents would welcome with open arms. However, I fixed that immediately because I enrolled in the National Open University. As a model, you have to keep pushing to be the next big thing. That is hard because it is actually constant work. The same way an athlete would keep training to keep winning races is the same way a model has to keep working. Work on your body to be the perfect requirement. Work on your skin, you are basically working on a lot of things at once. You need to know how to be composed, know your camera angles, and all of that. Recently, my need to know is acting because you can get thrown into any commercial and you need to act. I wasn’t prepared for that but now I am basically learning acting too. Another challenge for a lot of models is location. A lot of models are limited because of where they are, no big action happening there. So you need to always travel and be at where everything is happening.
Red Edit: Right now, the End SARS protests is very active, you have been on the streets actively joining the protest, what motivated you to be a part of the protest journey?
Ola Dozie: This SARS issue is something that affects everyone. I have been stopped in Akure when I was in school twice. I have witnessed SARS first hand: someone pointing, and cocking a gun at you threatening to shoot when it is obvious that you did nothing wrong. It is not just me, but my friends. A lot of my friends have been arrested by SARS, and being stopped by SARS is like a daily meal. So when I saw a lot of my friends were going to be on the streets protesting, it didn’t make sense that I stayed at home. The internet has also been a big help but we need to move. I hope our unity for this protest continues and we continue till 2023 and get a better government.
Red Edit: What should people look forward to with time, when it comes to Ola Dozie?
Ola Dozie: I have a lot of things I want to do but I prefer to live life as it comes. I am going to push forward for more jobs and campaigns but just watch out for me, I would like to cruise life as it comes.
Red Edit: So we have a quick Game Time for you. You have to choose one of each option presented then tell us why you chose that.
Ola Dozie (smiles) Okay.
Red Edit: Would you rather do a Keeks or Nike AD?
Ola Dozie: I have modeled for Keeks before, so I would do a Nike AD
Red Edit: Mai Atafo or Adidas?
Ola Dozie: Mai Atafo because Adidas is going to give me a casual look but Mai Atafo would definitely give me a classic.
Red Edit: Text or Calls?
Ola Dozie: None. I could manage texts but I don’t like calls, it gives me anxiety.
Red Edit: Nigeria or London?
Ola Dozie: London. While we’re fighting for our country to get better, let’s go there.
Red Edit: Would you rather have love or money?
Ola Dozie: Hmm, that tough. That is really tough. (after thinking for a long time) Hmm… love or money? I would go for Money. I don’t know… I actually really value love. I think I would go for love.
Red Edit: Is Love the final answer?
Ola Dozie: Wait… (laughs) But, you would be in love and then poor again. Omo money o! I would go for money. Money can’t buy love but love is already there. Money is not always there when you want it. (laughs)
Red Edit: Thank you Ola Dozie for talking to us.
Ola Dozie: I had joy talking to you. It was such a cool interview, thank you.
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]]>In earlier times, it seems braids was only a black thing as a lot of black women used braids as a protective style. However, this braid culture is now a fashion buzz. Everyone who’s anyone has had braids.
However, if you are new or a pro in the braid section, this read would be helpful for you as you would get all the style inspiration you need from this article.
1) BOX BRAIDS
Box braid is forever a classic. From Janet Jackson Jada Pinkett to Janelle Monae. You’d be sure to find your favorites rocking this braid style.
There are also diverse types of braids in the box braid category. There are knotless braids. Braids with curls. There’s such a variety of styles you could pick from.
2) FULANI BRAIDS
This braid originates from Africa. It is a style that originates from the Fulani tribe in west and east Africa. The hairstyle could be accessorized with hair beads, hair curves, to give it a bold and stylish look.
3) TWIST BRAIDS
As the name implies, this braid is done in twists. It doesn’t last long especially for naturlistas. There’s various types of twist braids which vary according to the size. There’s the most dreaded twist braids nicknamed: broomstick, or one million braids. This braid would ideally take at least two days if it is done by one person. Now, people just wear these braids as wig caps. No one wants to sit through the whole braiding process.
4) CORNROW BRAIDS
Cornrow braids have a variety of styles. Different cultures and hairstylists have their versions of this hairstyle. Sometimes, It is usually the quickest to do.
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]]>The collection is aimed at the 2020 Dry/ Harmattan Season, which is prevalent mostly in Africa. In line with the collection’s name, the fabric pattern used was mainly snakeskin, leopard print, and tiger stripes. The vibe of this collection is alte, and it contains 20 unique pieces that can be found on its website or its Instagram page. Nonetheless, let’s give you a preview of our favorite pieces before you go on a ride for more.
If you love the look, you can shop and find more here:
If you missed out on our post on the full look book, you can catch up below:
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