Magical Night of AMVCA 2016

added silver chandelier earrings to complete her look.

R&B musician, Mocheddah slayed in this blush pink ensemble, bringing back the 70’s look to the red carpet and she killed it. She finished up her look with silver studded earrings, perfect ponytail, and metallic ball purse.

Other celebrities that rocked the red carpet included; Nancy Isime who was also a stunner on the red carpet, in her nude mono strap rosette detailed dress; thigh-high slit gave it that wow look. She perfected her look with gold earrings, gold embellished purse and strappy sandals.

Rukky Sanda opted for a white lacy dress she designed herself with deep plunging neck line and finished her look with blue purse and silver studded earrings.

Red carpet host for the night, Eku Eduwor, was a stunner in a black off shoulder dress by Tsemaye Binite. She kept it all simple opting for black fringe earrings, and this makes her top our best-dressed list.

Lilian Esoro Franklin surely made heads turn in her canary yellow cape dress, paired with gold cuffs and gold purse. She sure knows how to rock a maternity look, we love her AMVCA style.

Though not our best red carpet look of her, Genevieve Nnaji arrived the red carpet in a simple floor length number by Tope FnR that features a deep cowl back line detail which was the best part of the dress for us. She finished up with silver accessories.

Beverly Naya wore a green dress with pearl details made by sisiano; the train of this dress was everything. She opted for very minimal jewelry and her hairdo was perfect for the entire look, and this made her one of our best dressed.

Nollywood actress, Adesua Etomi won the award for “Best Actress” at the AMVCAs and she also wins a spot on our Best Dressed list in this green custom design by April by Kunbi. She truly looked like a star on the red carpet.

Toke Makinwa is pictured gold-perfect in a ballroom gown and we love how she shine through the carpet and owned it.

Celebrity columnist with Thisday Newspapers, Azuka Ogujiuba was printastic in a bottle green double layer floor length gown with bold faces of Marilyn Monroe. She finished her look with short pixie cut which was a bit risky but she made it work.

Though we wished Caroline Danjuma had swapped this dress with the cobalt blue one she wore at her premier, we still liked how this dress accentuated her curves in the right places.

Though Sonia Morales Ogbonna’s dress was an imitation of Beyonce’s 2014 Grammy award stunner, the way she rocked this look made her look so international. She looked so perfect in this figure-hugging lace cutout gown.

There were a whole bunch of winners and losers at the AMVCA’s, and we’re not just talking about those who took home an award and those who didn’t. The red carpet saw its own share of hits and misses. African television’s biggest stars carefully selected their designer duds and proudly pranced down the red carpet with pundits from television hosts to fashion magazines to style bloggers giving their two cents on the choices the stars made. We do not know what exactly these celebrities were thinking but we suggest, just like Beyoncé, they fire their stylist or basically just try to go with looks that sit well on them.

UBERSTYLE AMVCA Red Carpet Misses

While we are not interested in what their fans will say, here’s our list of the red carpet misses at the 2016 AMVCA’s.

Funke Akindele wore a dress by Enthyst collection. There was just something about the color and the details of this dress we just didn’t understand. We have seen better looks on the star; this didn’t do it well for us. The dress looked too busy for the star, which is why we’re surprised she deviated from fitting gowns form to this gown that is a size too snug, spoiling the impact of that funky plush train. Since the debut edition of the AMVCA’s Susan Peters has, year in, year out, topped our worst dressed list. And this year, she is ringing the bell again in this cheap-looking blue and white ill-fitting ball gown.

Tonye Garrick has been known to have nice red carpet moments but not this time. Although this dress was far better than the disaster she had on last year but she did not do the red carpet justice this year in this dress from Peridot. The side details on the dress were just not sitting right; the total look from head to toe looked like a mistake.

Fade Ogunro made us sad on the red carpet with this black lacy dress from Weizdhurm Franklyn. We are not sure what the plan was, but it totally failed. As there is nothing sexy showing under boobs on the carpet. The dress is so young, fresh and sexy. It screams date rape!

Dakore Egbuson, who is usually flawless, picked a very different, April by Kunbi gown for the AMVCA’s. Her outfit this year came as a shocker, her dress looked like it was made in a rush. It did not sit well on her and the colours were not so nice as well. This is just the exact opposite of the yellow and purple dress which she wore last year.

I think I should just leave Kemi Adetiba on the best-dressed men’s list. This is heinous. It somehow manages to be dowdy and tacky at the same time. There is no way Shade Ladipo would have liked this, had it been paraded in front of her glam squad fashion critic show. All we can say is: “fashion critic” as she has called herself, heal thyself.

Last year, Alexx Ekubo brought the rainbow with him to the carpet and it gave us mixed feelings. This year, the actor came looking like one of those church ushers always standing at the back of a Pentecostal church.

This isn’t Kemi Lala Akindoju’s first rodeo. So, she should know better than to wear something this huge, ill-fitting and potentially wrinkly to the biggest fashion PR opportunity of the year. Somewhere, her stylist is crying, “I told her to live this dress on the hanger two days before the big show! Why doesn’t anyone listen to me?”

You know you’re ending up on the “Worst Dressed” list when people are already making memes about your dress before you finish walking the red carpet. Sorry, Ini Edo. The public has spoken. When will these people realise that they’re not walking up the aisle: they’re going to an award ceremony.

Darey is normally so well dressed, but this ensemble plus “that” sneakers is just kinda too “Let me rush quickly to Dbanj’s crib” for such an A-list event like the AMVCA’s.

There was just about the right amount of lighting at the AMVCA’s for anyone to take the perfect selfie. But Chigozie Atuanya clearly didn’t get the memo. Hence he arrived in so much red to bring more light and colour to the already “red carpet.”

Uche Jombo’s flowing black sheer creation missed the mark when it came to red carpet glamour. The floor-length gown was a ‘what do you expect when a comedy role have gone deep into your personal style’. Mr. Ibu was a huge joke just like he was on stage presenting the award for best actor in comedy.

Beverly Osu manages to have her gorgeous features overshadowed by a slightly confusing dress that has all the excitement of a restaurant napkin.

The boobs aren’t so big, but if there was ever a dress which was going to make people accuse you of having ‘child bearing hips’, Cool Fm’s Lolo 1 is wearing it. She could be forgiven if the dress was well arranged on her but maybe she brought her comedic side to the carpet. But she’s almost forgotten because of the gown’s lack of shape and distracting sleeves. Please hire a stylist!

Femi Jacobs, a.k.a, Mr. “M” from the award winning movie last year, “The Meeting” didn’t impress this year. In fact, Buffalo Bill seems to have been Emma Nyra’s delightful hair, face and flattering top half makes the bottom half of her red dress look like the fun just sort of stopped.

There’s no other way around it: Jesse Jagz’s suit is just ugly. Kudos, for we’re not sure if big brother Africa contestant, Melvin Oduah is on his way to a rave or just parachuted in, but he looks happy, which is really proving that good intentions don’t always yield good results. Kehinde Bankole’s replica of Zuhair Murad couture gown worn by model, chanel Iman somehow feels too busy and a little unfinished. Epic fail!

We applaud Helen Paul’s effort to be fashion-forward with that hair. However, that pink satin get-up has got to go! It’s frumpy, lumpy and it. We hate shapeless, unflattering gowns that make otherwise beautiful women look like sacks of potatoes. Enough said about Tomi Odunsi.

Ibinabo Fiberesima wore possibly the worst outfit so far! Take it away! How Van Vicker packed his bag, flew from Ghana into Nigeria knowing that this is what he’d be wearing for the AMVCA’s still shocks me. Colour me purple… That’s all.

Do we really need to write anything about this Bolanle Ninalowo’s look? Nobody needs glasses to see what’s wrong with it; do they? The Kunle Remmy’s Balmain inspired blazer looks like it was sewn together by the killer from “Silence of the Lambs”.