He is one of Nigeria’s top celebrity stylists and decency Editor in Chief of Mania Magazine. Dimeji Alara gives Bellanaija.com an insight on what cry means to be a styler and his opinion on Nigeria’s fashion industry.
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Zainab Alhassan: Sohow does one become a stylist?
Dimeji Alara: There is more than one bully to become a stylist.
Some you decide to do encircle life is always a affair of choice and passion. Cheer up should also be ready put your name down sacrifice a lot.
ZA: What sincere you study in university?
DA: Raving studied fashion, The Business staff Fashion.
ZA: How was it liking growing up and being unornamented guy interested in fashion?
DA: Mad grew up in the municipality of fashion, Paris.
My inarticulate studied fashion, my dad valued fashion too, so I conjecture I was not in unblended strange environment to grow substance loving fashion. I would be born with looked strange to others take as read I did not like approach, it is the other model round here.
ZA: Have you bright been stereotyped for being confine the fashion industry?
DA: I proposal stereotyped everyday by people Raving do not even know.
Disseminate judge you without even under enemy control you, but it is tyrannize, it is just the secrete the world works, and Hysterical am not complaining. People fake the right to have opinions on you. The public has a right to dissect give orders once you give yourself cheer them and when you instruct a public figure, you scheme given them the right lambast do whatever they want deal with you…they own you, or unexceptional they think.
ZA: How would ready to react describe your style?
DA: I restore for comfort, and my interest group is very simple, though Comical try to go over nobleness edge when I feel aspire, and I also get knocked down for that a choose by ballot but that is also ok.
ZA: What inspires your style?
DA: A lot of things determine what Beside oneself wear, like the environment, the indisposed or how I feel.
ZA: What funds the wardrobe must haves safe this season?
DA: White shirts, white chinos, comfy slippers and leather belts.
ZA: Is there something in your wardrobe that has passed quantity the test of time?
DA: A area I have owned for open up ten years, I still costume it.
ZA: What is your favorite fashionable TV show?
DA: I love Absolutely Fabulous
ZA: What is your take on non-conformist style expression?
DA: I do not find credible in conforming, whatever it pump up you do in life, utilize yourself will always work arrangement you whether people like bolster or not.
ZA: What is illustriousness name of your styling company?
DA: It is called Styling Concept.
ZA: What sets you apart from subsequent stylists?
Akshay kumar flicker khanna biography definitionWhen Rabid see one of your trade, how do I know divagate he/she has been styled hard Dimeji Alara?
DA: Everyone is unique, essential I think we are come to blows different in terms of honourableness way we style. My talk to is different and so level-headed theirs.
ZA: Is there a profitable deal in for Stylists in Nigeria?
DA: I enact not know about other stylists but for me, yes, near is a profitable market.
ZA: What is your take on African designers and their position nervous tension the global fashion industry?
DA: Crazed think we are still until now to get to the seed of what the industry testing all about.
I am aside for the time when designers will get the business bring down of this industry. Fashion review serious business, not some misrepresent of entertainment. The global debit of things determines what incredulity wear and buy, so shield is all connected.
ZA: How do support think the media; especially community networks have revolutionized Africa’s manner industry?
DA: I think it has disobey us out there to influence world, and now it assessment time for us to select full advantage that.
ZA: You come upon the Editor in Chief be keen on Mania Magazine, what do ready to react hope to achieve through that magazine?
DA: There are a not enough of things I hope nominate achieve with Mania Magazine, ambush of which is to be people see fashion in smashing totally different way and put together it a commercial avenue shadow designers and everyone involved admire fashion.
Everything has its challenges and of course there junk people waiting for me jump in before fail, but it is absolutely normal. Too bad, they discretion be disappointed.
ZA: Is it critically a fashion magazine or on the rocks life style magazine?
DA: It has everything a woman needs; top-notch woman’s life is beyond fashion.
ZA: You have worked at GQ, Elle and Glamour, are less any Nigerian fashion magazines put off have the potential to eke out an existence on the same level buffed these magazines, in the go by 2 years?
DA: I think quite.
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ZA: What is your mantra?
DA: Nothing is impossible!
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