Hi guys the major reason i've been blogging sporadically is because i'm currently working on  my debut collection. Its been quite a stressful but rewarding process. I've been inspired by everything from baroque architecture to old hollywood movies during this process. So today i'm going to be sharing some images that have inspired me with you.

Elizabeth Tailor as Cleopatra in 1963, i love the fit, the styling....everything

i loooove this dress. its just sooo sleek. Rita Hayworth in Gilda 1946. cant believe a dress thats over half a century old is still so current.

 

Juila Roberts in Pretty Woman 1990. This dress is everything!

Princess Di is probably one of my top 3 Fashion Icons of all time. I've always loved her style, and the way she could steal the lime light from the whole royal family just by turning up in some fabulous ensemble.. This Black number is by Versace.

Versailles chapel

Interior of Strawberry hill by thomas pitt. There's just something very hedonistic and opulent about baroque architecture.

18th century benedictine rococo monastery church of Zwiefalten

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                                  This image really doesn't do it justice. That's all from me for now.

Mohammad Ali and Louis Vuitton.

Mohammad Ali is the face of Louis Vuitton's Core Values Campaign. Love it! His grandson is too cute and he looks so much like him! Annie Leibovitz who photographed him, has also worked with a lot of famous people from out present Queen to John Lennon.

Check them out below.

Mick Jagger in 1975 for RollingStone Magazine

Angelina Jolie for Louis Vuitton

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980 for RollingStone Magazine (she was the last one to professionally  photograph John Lennon before his death 5 hours later)

Demi Moore in 1991 for Vanity Fair

Queen Elizabeth II in 2007

I love how most of her photographs look almost like paintings.

photocredit- vanityfair,com, vogue.co.uk, news.bbc.co.uk, rollingstone.com 

The FELA Experience!

The Broadway play FELA was recently staged in lagos, it's based on the life of a Nigerian Afro beat Musician and Activist and one of the biggest African Musical Icons. aaaanyway I got the chance to work backstage in the costumes department with a top Nigerian designer and some stylists.

The show was Fabulous and i got a chance to meet soooo many cool people, did i mention the dancers? Wow those dancers! or as they where called in the play 'The queens'.  I'll admit it was pretty stressful dressing them and having to remember all the different costume changes and que's. But it was all worth it as i got to play with the awesome custumes.

I put up a video from backstage where the dancers where letting off steam and having fun before they went on for their 1st act, the video is a tad random and sketchy because i used my phone, Hope you guys like it!

 This is Nicole, one of the 'queens' she's a FANTASTIC dancer, the way she moves her body you'd think she was born aand bed in naija!

              Me, Veno, jil(one of the choreographers), lawunmi and Joke the guys were MIA at this point. they'l probabaly kill me for putting this up seeing how tired we all look.

i look about 16 in this picture, anyway so i finally got to watch the play on the last day of the show and this is what i wore. the necklace once belonged to my mum and it's actually older than i am!

sweater: Random

skirt: Primark

belt: h&m

Watch: Moschino

Bag: Zara

Necklace: Monet