Patience Torlowei: Foreign media celebrates Nigerian fashion designer
Nigerian born fashion designer, Patience Torlowei who is an artist and a specialist in the textile sector was recently celebrated by The Washington Post.
Patience Torlowei’s stunning dress, Esther, which is named after her late mother is hand-painted with images reflecting the conflicts on the African continent. It captured the story of the struggles and pain of the Niger Delta. It illustrates the power of hope and that of a person to change the world by giving people hope.
Esther is a beautiful silk ball gown designed and hand painted by the designer. The dress made history when it became the first item of high fashion to be ever requested by the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of African Art in Washington DC as a permanent exhibit.
Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan wrote about Torlowei and her history-making dress Esther at the Smithsonian.
Though, before making its final journey to Smithsonian, Esther was hosted to a send-off cocktail party in Lagos and unveiled before a select distinguished audience at the Metropolitan Club.
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Patience is also the founder of Patience Please, the first registered lingerie manufacturer in Nigeria.
Legit.ng had reported that Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, was in Japan with President Muhammadu Buhari where they had gone for the Tokyo International Conference of African Development (TICAD7).
Abike, on Monday, August 26, met with some Japanese boys and girls in Nigerian attires as they prepare for (TICAD7).
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