4.4 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Born and raised in Lagos, Lisa Folawiyo has spent her career celebrating the craftsmanship of her Nigerian heritage by combining sharp, contemporary tailoring with traditional West African prints and textiles, and bringing the fashion of her hometown onto the global stage (the likes of Lupita Nyong’o, Issa Rae, and Solange Knowles have walked the red carpet in her designs). In this week's episode, Lale chats with the fashion designer about her process, Lagos style, the markets that inspire her, and more.
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0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Lale Arakoglu, and in today's women who travel, we're entering the world of fashion, |
0:10.5 | which is something a little rare for us, given we talk so much about travel, but they're intersected, |
0:15.2 | and it's especially exciting. I'm talking to a visionary designer whose vibrant outfits, |
0:20.5 | often with contrasting prints, |
0:22.4 | managed to be both elegant and joyful. |
0:24.8 | If you wore one to a party, you'd still the spotlight. |
0:28.0 | She's Lisa Folaweo. |
0:33.6 | I am designing for a woman who likes to look good and feel good. |
0:44.4 | And so much of that I think is, you know, captured in the colors and the patterns. |
0:49.1 | Oh, I love color. |
0:50.5 | Tell me about that. Describe a little bit of the colors you're drawn to. |
0:54.6 | I always say color is life. I mean, I do love to wear all black. |
1:00.8 | I mean, I'm in all black today. But I will say I love a lot of color. |
1:04.8 | No, I do. And I guess, you know, that probably comes from growing up in a country that's sunny all the time. |
1:13.3 | What we know is bright and joyful. |
1:16.4 | And I would always look at the lady who wears beautiful print dress before I looked at the girl in the black dress. |
1:22.5 | Not like the black dress is not amazing, but I would, my eyes would definitely go to color and print first. |
1:28.7 | So maybe it's growing up and my mom taking us to the markets and we were always buying |
1:32.3 | prints and making print dresses. Maybe it was that, you know? I absolutely love all colors. |
1:39.8 | There isn't any color that I don't see the beauty in. |
1:46.3 | Lisa celebrates the crafts of her Nigerian heritage. |
1:51.2 | My father is not from Lagos, but lived in Lagos most of his life. |
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