'Nigerian Celebrities Like Cheap, Free Things. The Way they Bargain will even Shock You' – Owolabi

 

Award-winning celebrity designer, Durojaiye Owolabi, is the owner of Mood’deo International. And in a chat with Punch Saturday Beats, he says most of the celebrities seen on television in Nigeria like wearing cheap clothes or clothes given to them for free. According to Owolabi, when he started his business, he expected that he would make it big being a celebrity designer but was shocked when he realized that some of the big names in the industry wanted free clothes and they always delayed in paying him for his services.
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“I see entertainers as celebrities. They dictate what goes on in the fashion world. I see them as people that have made it, rich and affluent and whatever they put on has to be the best.  

When I started my outfit, being a celebrity designer is what I targeted because abroad, celebrities are the people that would help you showcase your work. I decided I would
work with a few of them but I was shocked because most of these celebrities like cheap things. I cannot mention names but you would be surprised that most of the big names do not pay on time. 

But I have worked with Tuface who even paid more than the cost of the item. But people like Tuface are scarce in the industry. These celebrities want things for free. This made me change my mind to be doing clothes for the masses because my fashion line is going to end up as an NGO. I thought I could make enough money from being a celebrity designer, then I could turn my business into an NGO for the less privileged kids but things did not work out as I planned.  

Sometimes when these celebrities bargain for an attire, you would be shocked and ask yourself if it is the same person that we see on television.”

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