Mowalola Ogunlesi

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London Fashion Week: the fab home of freaks, outsiders & getting fucked up

LFW is 40! As the AW24 shows get underway today, Tom Rasmussen unpacks the city’s unrivalled vibes, unmatched talent, and wild conversations overheard in its queues

Fashion

Feb 16, 2024

Tom Rasmussen

Fashion

Namasenda XOYO show street style party pics

Namasenda talks fashion fails, fashion grails and how much she loves to lie

The Stockholm-based musician behind bangers like ‘No Regrets’ and ‘deathrow bby’ also reveals her sci-fi influences, her dream girl group line-up, and which Spice Girls track she’d love to cover

Fashion

Dec 12, 2023

Emma Elizabeth Davidson

Fashion

Dying for nyash: Ceechynaa for Mowalola

Controversial and brilliant, Mowalola Ogunlesi has always been down to play the baddie if it means doing things her own way. Here, the designer talks with her sister, life coach Tiwalola, about being cancelled, community, and more

Fashion

Nov 27, 2023

Kacion Mayers

Fashion

Glued-on bows and gothic tees: more street style from SS24

Photographer Darrel Hunter captured London’s hottest looks for SS24 – from shredded-up emo slogan t-shirts to Bella Hadid-style eyewear, and ribbons tacked onto every surface imaginable

Fashion

Oct 04, 2023

Hannah Bertolino

Fashion

Pioneering trans model and OG muse Connie Girl returns to Mugler’s runway

Besides his wind-blown looks, Casey Cadwallader dove into Mugler’s past for SS24 – sending 90s muse Connie Girl and a line-up of recreated archive looks down the runway

Fashion

Oct 03, 2023

Hannah Bertolino

Fashion

Mowalola apologises for turning the Saudi Arabian flag into a miniskirt

Debuted as part of the designer’s SS24 ‘Crash’ show at LFW, the style drew criticism from Saudi Arabian people across social media

Fashion

Sep 18, 2023

Fashion

Blondie icon Debbie Harry is Marc Jacobs’ latest covergirl

The atomic blonde joins London designer Mowalola, rappers BK the Rula and Destroy Lonely, and Gillian Anderson’s daughter Ever Anderson to debut the hot new St. Marc bag

Fashion

Jun 08, 2023

Art & Photography

POWER, PAIN, PRIVILEGE explores the liminal spaces of biracial identity

The short audio-visual artwork by Lucie Rox and musician Specimens is coming to Paris for an exclusive screening

Art & Photography

Mar 03, 2023

Thom Waite

Music

Bktherula, the Atlanta rapper walking the runway for Mowalola

Fresh off the release of her LVL5 P1 project, the Rico Nasty collaborator talks drinking in moderation, doing her own thing, and making music that mind fucks you

Music

Feb 24, 2023

Nicolas-Tyrell Scott

Beauty

LFW beauty trends: dyed tongues and stained teeth are so hot right now

At London Fashion Week AW23, Chet Lo made a case for colourful tongues, while blue eyeshadow cemented its return at Connor Ives and Dilara Fındıkoğlu

Beauty

Feb 22, 2023

Alex Peters

Fashion

Yves Tumor, Slawn, and Rico Nasty are Mowalola’s harbingers of doom

The designer drew inspiration from an apocalyptic New York, churned through a meat grinder of technological anxieties

Fashion

Feb 19, 2023

Daniel Rodgers

Fashion

Street Souk Nigerian streetwear convention Lagos 2022

Photos from Street Souk, the Lagos streetwear fair championing home talent

Founded by Iretidayo Zaccheaus and co-signed by Virgil Abloh, the annual event is dedicated to the rising labels exploding out of Nigeria

Fashion

Jan 09, 2023

Nelson C J

Music

The only tracks you need to hear this month

With new songs by daine, Fireboy DML and Yung Lean

Music

Aug 31, 2022

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Fashion

Will fashion ever be ‘taboo’ again?

In an era where almost everything is sexually permitted, and shock has been supplanted by outrage, taboo has lost its potency on the runway

Fashion

Aug 19, 2022

Daniel Rodgers

Fashion

Inside the exhibition celebrating African fashion

Spotlighting wildly talented designers past and present, with works by Thebe Magugu, Kenneth Ize, and IB Kamara, the V&A’s long-awaited show throws open its doors this weekend

Fashion

Jul 01, 2022

Nelson C J