MEET THE DESIGNER

 

Temitope Tanimowo is an Afrocentric Lifestyle fashion designer who creatively fuses traditional West African fabrics with modern tailoring techniques. She is known for her label, Teda Designs, which she launched in 2010, and is growing into a well established fashion brand showcasing new and unique designs consistently to her satisfied clientele.

Tope uses a afrocentric themed fabrics, to create captivating and unique custom designs.Her designs are classy, elegant, simplistic and innovative, and she also loves to play around with colors and mix prints.

Teda Designs was one of the beneficiary of Youwin grant given by the Federal government and has also won a scholarship from British council to study at Lagos Business School.

Temitope came out with 1st Class studying Business Administration at Covenant University,Ota Nigeria. She worked with Zenith Bank and later moved on to KPMG professional Services. After a few years she resigned to pursue her love of fashion.

To understand and better improve her craft, she studied Fashion Design with London College of Fashion and learnt the art of Pattern drafting and sewing construction from Nobel Afriq. She also improved herself in Fashion Illustration with Celafriq.

Today She has her own factory with a growing workforce. She runs classes teaching fashion enthusiasts on how to design their own collection. She has a fashion school teaching Pattern drafting and sewing construction.