‘Plussize Fashion Week Africa not celebration of obesity’

The annual fashion runway show dedicated to showcase the beauty of the ‘Plus-size’ or endowed Africans is not a celebration of obesity but a celebration of confidence and healthy life style, the founder of Plussize Fashion Week Africa, Temi Aboderin-Alao has said.

Aboderin-Alao said this ahead of the 2019 edition of Plussize Fashion Week, which holds today at the Traffic Bar and Restaurant, Ikoyi in Lagos.

The Plussize Fashion Week Africa opening for the third edition in Lagos is the only fashion runway dedicated to Plussize designers, models and apparels.

It is expected to bring together recognized talented and promising fashion designer brands and retail enterprises from within and outside Nigeria to showcase trends and products to the audience and fashion enthusiasts.

According to Aboderin-Alao, this year’s event will be “mindblowing” as new things would be explored while the models too would be brought closer to the audience. “We want to take the way of the New York Fashion Week,” she said.

“We don’t encourage people to keep growing big but to embrace a healthy lifestyle. We are promoting body positivity, encouraging people to be the happiest version of who they are,” she said.

Temi Aboderin-Alao, is the Creative Director of JPKouture by Hadassah, a high end plussize fashion brand. She is also the C.E.O of JPKingdom, a ready to wear one-stop shop for plussize women and also the CEO of Golden Curvy Agency, one of the leading plussize modelling agencies in Nigeria.