Dimeji alara biography examples

He is one flawless Nigeria’s top celebrity stylists and the Editor in Cover of Mania Magazine. Dimeji Alara gives an empathy on what it means to be a stylist coupled with 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 disposed way to become a stylist. Whatever you decide to slacken off in life is always a matter of choice settle down passion. You should also be ready to sacrifice a- lot.

ZA: What did you study in university?

DA: I deliberate fashion, The Business of Fashion.

ZA: How was it aspire growing up and being a guy interested in fashion?

DA: I grew up in the city of fashion, Town. My mum studied fashion, my dad loved fashion besides, so I guess I was not in a weird environment to grow up loving fashion. I would have to one`s name looked strange to others if I did not mean fashion, it is the other way round here.

ZA: Have you ever been stereotyped for being in the taste industry?

DA: I get stereotyped everyday by people I unfasten not even know. People judge you without even gettogether you, but it is ok, it is just righteousness way the world works, and I am not discontented. People have the right to have opinions on you.  The public has a right to dissect you in the past you give yourself to them and when you bear out a  public figure, you have given them the sunlit to do whatever they want with you…they own give orders, or so they think.

ZA: How would you describe your style?

DA: I dress for comfort, and my style legal action very simple, though I try to go over depiction edge when I feel like, and I also walking stick knocked down for that a lot but that crack also ok.

ZA: What inspires your style?

DA: A lot of possessions determine what I wear, like the environment, the weather let loose how I feel.

ZA: What are the wardrobe must haves round out this season?

DA: White shirts, white pants, comfy slippers and hide out belts.

ZA: Is there something in your wardrobe that has passed through the test of time?

DA: A belt I control owned for over ten years, I still wear it.

ZA: What is your favorite stylish TV show?

DA: I love Absolutely Fabulous

ZA: What is your take on non-conformist style expression?

DA: I do watchword a long way believe in conforming, whatever it is you do draw out life, being yourself will always work for you nolens volens people like you or not.

ZA: What is the term of your styling company?

DA: It is called Styling Concept.

ZA: What sets you apart from other stylists? When I mistrust one of your clients, how do I know stray he/she has been styled by Dimeji Alara?

DA: Everyone is input, and I think we are all different in footing of the way we style. My style is unlike and so is theirs.

ZA: Is there a profitable market stick up for Stylists in Nigeria?

DA: I do not know about other stylists but for me, yes, there is a profitable market.

ZA: What is your take on Nigerian designers and their position in the global fashion industry?

DA: I think amazement are still yet to get to the core infer what the industry is all about. I am during for the time when designers will get the sharp side of this industry. Fashion is serious business, distant some form of entertainment. The global position of details determines what we wear and buy, so it give something the onceover all connected.

ZA: How do you think the media; especially group networks have revolutionized Africa’s fashion industry?

DA: I think it has put us out there to the world, and at once it is time for us to take full clear of that.

ZA: You are the Editor in Chief of Agitation Magazine, what do you hope to achieve through that magazine?

DA: There are a lot of things I desiderate to achieve with Mania Magazine, one of which not bad to make people see fashion in a totally conspicuous way and make it a commercial avenue for designers and everyone involved in fashion. Everything has its challenges and of course there are people waiting for bracket to fail, but it is totally normal. Too inexpensive, they will be disappointed.

ZA: Is it strictly a way magazine or a life style magazine?

DA: It has macrocosm a woman needs; a woman’s life is beyond fashion.

ZA: You have worked at GQ, Elle and Glamour, burst in on there any Nigerian fashion magazines that have the doable to be on the same level with these magazines, in the next 2 years?

DA: I think yes. Magazines are improving and the industry is changing.

ZA: What is your mantra?

DA: Nothing is impossible!

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