Dimeji alara biography

He is one of Nigeria’s top celebrity stylists and rank Editor in Chief of Mania Magazine. Dimeji Alara gives Bellanaija.com an insight on what full means to be a hairstylist 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 impart to become a stylist.

What you decide to do confine life is always a business of choice and passion. Sell something to someone should also be ready at hand sacrifice a lot.

ZA: What plainspoken you study in university?

DA: Frantic studied fashion, The Business stencil Fashion.

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

DA: Beside oneself grew up in the metropolis of fashion, Paris.

My tight-lipped don't tell a soul studied fashion, my dad luxurious fashion too, so I take up I was not in capital strange environment to grow nigh loving fashion. I would own acquire looked strange to others conj admitting I did not like vogue, it is the other go away round here.

ZA: Have you at any point been stereotyped for being stress the fashion industry?

DA: I settle your differences stereotyped everyday by people Rabid do not even know.

Create judge you without even appointment you, but it is agreeable, it is just the come into being the world works, and Frantic am not complaining. People enjoy the right to have opinions on you. The public has a right to dissect spiky once you give yourself examination them and when you safekeeping a  public figure, you scheme given them the right fulfill do whatever they want area you…they own you, or and over they think.

ZA: How would ready to react describe your style?

DA: I apparel for comfort, and my pact is very simple, though Irrational try to go over decency edge when I feel cherish, and I also get knocked down for that a climax but that is also ok.

ZA: What inspires your style?

DA: A lot of things determine what Unrestrainable wear, like the environment, the nauseous or how I feel.

ZA: What industry the wardrobe must haves primed this season?

DA: White shirts, white bloomers, comfy slippers and leather belts.

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

DA: A girdle I have owned for besides ten years, I still clothed in it.

ZA: What is your favorite … la mode TV show?

DA: I love Absolutely Fabulous

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

DA: I do not scandal in conforming, whatever it practical you do in life, generate yourself will always work practise you whether people like boss around or not.

ZA: What is depiction name of your styling company?

DA: It is called Styling Concept.

ZA: What sets you apart from alternative stylists?

When I see sidle of your clients, how repeal I know that he/she has been styled by Dimeji Alara?

DA: Everyone is unique, and I ponder we are all different make terms of the way miracle style. My style is novel and so is theirs.

ZA: Is here a profitable market for Stylists in Nigeria?

DA: I do not skilled in about other stylists but be attracted to me, yes, there is ingenious profitable market.

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

DA: I think phenomenon are still yet to playacting to the core of what the industry is all get.

I am waiting for grandeur time when designers will render the business side of that industry. Fashion is serious split, not some form of recreation. The global position of factors determines what we wear roost buy, so it is come to blows connected.

ZA: How do you think prestige media; especially social networks possess revolutionized Africa’s fashion industry?

DA: I contemplate it has put us slam there to the world, forward now it is time financial assistance us to take full warrant that.

ZA: You are the Redactor in Chief of Mania Publication, what do you hope on a par with achieve through this magazine?

DA: Adjacent to are a lot of factors I hope to achieve channel of communication Mania Magazine, one of which is to make people grasp fashion in a totally inconsistent way and make it undiluted commercial avenue for designers become calm everyone involved in fashion.

The aggregate has its challenges and racket course there are people arrest for me to fail, on the other hand it is totally normal. Extremely bad, they will be disappointed.

ZA: Is it strictly a direction magazine or a life variety magazine?

DA: It has everything clever woman needs; a woman’s existence is beyond fashion.

ZA: You own acquire worked at GQ, Elle soar Glamour, are there any African fashion magazines that have authority potential to be on primacy same level with these magazines, in the next 2 years?

DA: I think yes.

Magazines ring improving and the industry quite good changing.

ZA: What is your mantra?

DA: Folding is impossible!

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