The red carpet is a place is where you put your best foot forward and debut fashion at its finest; but that’s not all there is during fashion week.
Yesterday, Wednesday 29th October 2014, the 2014 GTBank Lagos Fashion & Design Week started with a bang and the socialites, celebs, bloggers and fashion lovers were all live to see it unravel.
From the boho-chic and sporty-chic like Noble Igwe, Zina Anumudu & Kiki Kamanu on the streets to the belles of the ball like Dakore Akande, Liz Yemoja & Tonye Garrick on the red carpet here are the street styles and red carpet photos from Day 1 of the GTBankLFDW2014.
Enjoy!
Street Style
Zina Anumudu
Kanayo Ebi
Kiki Kamanu
Tonye Garrick
Bubu Ogisi
Rekena Sharon Ojong
Noble Igwe
Makida Moka
Moses Ebite
Sisiano Paolo
Dedun of Style Me Africa
Uju Nwobodo
Bola Balogun
Bubu Ogisi & Ian Audifferen
Obi Somto
Red Carpet
Ono Bello
Toke Makinwa
Fade Ogunro
Dakore Egbuson
Veronica Ebie-Odeka
Tonye Garrick
Denola Adepetun
Liz Yemoja
Dimeji Alara
Toyin Jolapanmo in LDA (The Soho Sister)
Folu Storms in Ayo Van Elmar
TemiLady of Kwamuhle
Monalisa Chinda
Ezinne Chinkata
Adebayo Oke Lawal
Ivie
Estanola Oyelese
Ehiz
Maryann Alabi
Rodney Emeka in McMeka
Deola Adebiyi
The Fashion fabulosity continues today with an amazing list of designers like Maki Oh, McMeka, Sunny Rose and more. See the full schedule here.
Photo Credit: Kola Oshalusi, Ebenezer Dada & Sniper Ajisegbede
This is a PSA to all those women with FAT YAM LOOKING LEGS! I’M BEGGING YOU ALL, PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE STAY AWAY FROM SHORT SKIRTS! STOP TERRORIZING OUR EYES WITH SUCH EYE SORE! GOD BLESS AS YOU COMPLY! Signed…Concerned Citizens!
Human beings v issues! Skinny legs u complain! Fat legs u complain! Did u create urself Mrs Flawless? Leg na leg whether crippled or not. U must be s Saddist for calling someone’s leg an eyesore. Idioto
It is because of people like you that chick went to get butt implant and died in the process. SHAME ON YOU -!!!!!!!!
The losers stay talking from the sidelines. Can you create an ant, talkless of a person?
ALSO
GIRLS-
FLATS ARE A NO NO AT EVENTS
WHEN IN DOUBT, WEAR HEELS
The guys in polka dot pants though…………….and the guy with the boko haram beard……all these for fashion,
Abi all these men are crazy ni? DafuQ are they all wearing?
O lawd Jesus it’s a fire! Is this what fashion looks like in Lagos? Lagosians, y’ll need to know Lagos ain’t Jand or yankee the sooner we have some sorta understanding on this, the better. Ah ah too many misses abi una de share am?
Even in Jand and yankee, they are still well put together. Most of these people look like homeless folks that are on a robbery mission.
Choi, pls take it easy…ok, lemme play their side small…..I think the most casual looks captured during the day happened 2hen they were still setting up n the models doing fittings and things….. its d evening looks I worry about…..
I couldn’t agree more….as in peeps need to understand that avant garde looks should be just what it means…u can’t copy what you see and expect to look good, it has to be u! There are just too many misses…just my opinion!
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. too edgy and rugged for my liking, but its good to see people not take themselves too seriously. That said; Dakore does it for me…Nice and chic outfit. Best dressed handsdown
Denola…..it never ends well when you try to wear d entire colour spectrum and shapes at once…
I prefer Tonye’s casual look earlier…..that dress was ill fitting.
And this right here,… https://www.bellanaija.com/2014/10/30/gtbank-lagos-fashion-design-week-2014-day-1-tres-chic-street-style-fab-red-carpet/gtbank-lagos-fashion-design-week-2014-street-style-bellanaija-october2014036/ two words…….Baby Yooo!! Ha far nah!
By and large we still dress the same to EVERY type of event….see Toke like an evening wedding guest… At fashion week, you show up in inspiring fashion, on that note, .my favourite was Bubu Ogisi! Cheers.
You understand all my issues here. Clicked excitedly to enjoy the deliciousness of seeing my Lag brethren giving me high “fah-shohn” (In Andre Lean Talley’s voice) and I’m now leaving without any satisfaction. Greatly missing Nkiru Anumodu, at least you were sure of the unexpected when she graces the red carpet….
Hopefully most people featured here (except for the few who properly brought their “A” game on day 1) are saving their serious armour for days 2 & 3.
*Leon*
Nnem, the mere mention of Nkiru sent shivers down my spine…good shivers. That woman is my mommy in my head…fashion mommy!!!
Sorry to say did o’l them street style looks razz,. Y the flip flops? some didn’t even iron their clothes
All I see is DAKORE!
Mehn!!!! The boys aint letting it down…. Fashion MUST change hands.. Dimeji and Dakore too cute… Most people really look good.
i love bubu’s top
the guy on purple, you look really disappealing
the womanon purple too, the skirt is too tight
i see my boy kevwe :*
Tonye Garrick of life…she killled it
Dat skirt on Dakore though! I’m in love…….
Lagosians alway trying too hard, for a moment I thought this was a costume party no kidding…. Chei my naija guys, una don dey metamorphosize into peacocks right before our korokoro eyes all in the name of fine boi & fashion.. odi kwa somehow.
The wannabes. Trying too hard to be something they are not, while ending up looking tacky and classless.
Dakore for the WIN!!!!!!
plenty mad people in lagos, i see some cute people
Nowe too is going natural? wonders!
She has been natural for a while now… except u don’t know her very well…
where is Ijeoma Ndekwu???
Liz Yemoja looks stylish!!
Totally digging the diverse fashion style. This exudes new York Fashion scene- eccentric and cool
I know its fashion week..but dayuum…the dudes need to chill out
All those guys that have been in the closet since are now showing themselves at fashion week.
Tonye Garrick, Liz Yemoja look great! Dakore looks Beyoooooond!
Very eccentric… i like
Toke and Dakore beautiful
Charmaine!
Lady Biba!
Plus Tonye’s face is giving me life. Black beauty
To “But that’s none of my business”, it’s the kind of you that promotes poor self esteem. If their yams gives you eye sore then shut it up to prevent that. Afterall, if God says His creations are “perfect,” they are indeed perfect. So keep your sick fashion rule to yourself please.
My Naija Guys just because you have a skinny legs, does not automatically makes you a model. Wearing overly skinny pants (trousers) screams! Gay and Tacky.
You better don’t dress like this in Atlanta. (Gay headquarters for black men) or San Francisco.
Please! There’s a HUGE difference between “Edgy,” “shabby, ” and tacky as f…k
In their minds, they were going for edgy looks, but it ended up catastrophically tragic.
All i see is Dakore-she nailed it (going for that Kerry Washington look) and the girl with the shot white dress and “killer” white shoes-she executed her fashion flawlessly, not by fire, or by force.
The health of this girls hair makes me sad because this is what I see whenever I’m in Lagos. This is what is often hidden beneath all the miles of Indian, Russian, Peruvian etc. hair. Relaxed or natural, nigerian women need to take better care of their hair.
https://www.bellanaija.com/2014/10/30/gtbank-lagos-fashion-design-week-2014-day-1-tres-chic-street-style-fab-red-carpet/gtbank-lagos-fashion-design-week-2014-street-style-bellanaija-october2014042/
Toke Makinwa is looking MUCH older these days, maybe she changed her skin regime or its the make up but something aint right
lmao @omoibo’s comment…. of course all for fashion sakes! like seriously poka dots pants? ha fear catch me sha. Some missed some on point, guess we dont have to get it right all the time. Mayb the essence of it all is just fun (my thinking sha)
Just like Carrie Bradshaw(SJP in sex and the city) would say…”Fashion week brings out the best and the worst in people… we try to express our inner self the way we know how…FASHION”… it’s exciting to see that our own fashion week has its own thing to it… bravo to Toke, Dakore, Vero O., Nowe.. n the guys..Denola, Noble…. u guys stay slaying…. then for those that dressed like mad people in the name of standing out at fashion week..”I hail ohhh!!!!!”
All i see is tacky dressing everywhere. Dakore nailed it tho…. and is it just me or Dimeji Alara seems to be everywhere these days. He looked good too.
Horrible.
With everything in me, I gotta ask, WHAT THE FUDGE is Sisiano Paolo wearing????
Most of these people are exhausting to look at not to talk of comment on.
I like Rita Dominic and Dakore. the men are even worse and need some sort of therapy or a full length mirror or both
Bring me all your beautiful- your fat and slim, your fashionable and those that drip in fashion faux pas; bring me the very gay and the straight, bring me the short and the tall, the rich and the wannabes, the bleached and the naturals, the repats and the expats, the assos and the pakis; but most of all bring me the True gen X Naijas in all of their fashion forward glories!
What is this side boobed monstrosity! and they aren’t even perky! they are hanging down low barely distinct from the armpit folds and the other rolls below! Sisteh maka why?
Toke looks pregnant…
dakore for the pple…na u make sense pass……….thank God ooo…fade no wear crop top………..am really nt impress sha..but …for me..dakore nailed it…gbam
I have one question, is Lagos still hot, weatherwise? I no understand wetin people put togeda for here. Chic street style, and na over-combine worry dem. Na wa o.