Estella: Nigerian Designer Walking Tall In America

Estella

I am an aficionado of modern fashion since I started making sketches for different clothes and showed them to Nikky Africana when she was just managing a small boutique in the 80s and I told her that she would become a celebrated Nigerian fashion designer and the following year she won the Nigerian Fashion Designer of the Year Award. And I moved on to become the features editor of a magazine for school children and met other fashionable icons of the upper class in Nigeria and even became a close friend of one of them, Lady Tanya Hume-Sotomi whose bosom friend Helen Kuku is also a designer of note in Nigeria. Then later, I met Sefinatu Muhammad of the Federal Palace Hotel on the Victoria Island in Lagos, and I did a cover story on Princess Adelaide Ofori-Olagbaju whose Kente Oke was the rave in the late 90s in Nigeria. She was very receptive and appreciated my admiration of her remarkable designs. Later I had a modeling agency department when I was the editor of Affection International magazine in Nigeria and met the new generation of young and dynamic Nigerian fashion designers like Frank Oshodi, Mon Ami, my good friend Bayo of Modela, Dakova and Kese Jabari who is now in America. I have already turned my attention away from Nigerian fashion designers since 2004 until I heard of Estella online when she won the Nigerian Entertainment Award (NEA) for Fashion Designer of the Year in America.

Estella Relaxing.

Estella is a young fashion designer based in the US and she is already going places in America.

"...we dress queens. And can make any woman feel and look like a queen at anytime, any day, any event" -
- Estella

cover story on Princess Adelaide Ofori-Olagbaju whose Kente Oke was the rave in the late 90s in Nigeria. She was very receptive and appreciated my admiration of her remarkable designs. Later I had a modeling agency department when I was the editor of Affection International magazine in Nigeria and met the new generation of young and dynamic Nigerian fashion designers like Frank Oshodi, Mon Ami, my good friend Bayo of Modela, Dakova and Kese Jabari who is now in America. I have already turned my attention away from Nigerian fashion designers since 2004 until I heard of Estella online when she won the Nigerian Entertainment Award (NEA) for Fashion Designer of the Year in America.

Estella is a young fashion designer based in the US and she is already going places in America.

Estella Couture

"......we dress queens. And can make any woman feel and look like a queen at anytime, any day, any event" -
- Estella

Estella Ogbonna is the brain behind ESTELLA Couture. A natural talent in fashion. She designs and makes her designs herself.

She started as a teenager and says her talent is from God as she did not go to any sewing school or training before she started sewing.
Her academic record spans from two diploma degrees in (Special Education for the Hearing handicaps, and Computer Science), to two Bachelors degrees in Computer Network Administration, and Psychology, and also two almost completed MBA and MPA programmes.

Estella is a multi-talented person, and this shows in her designs as they ultimately stand out, because she incorporates a lot of imaginations and originality in her works.

This young, pretty lady has been a TV presenter/Producer. And also a model from her teenage. She has planned shows and pageants while in college, and has proven that the limelight is in her blood and its a good thing she has now concentrated her attention to fashion, which is her passion! Because the whole world is waiting for ESTELLA Couture!

And don't be surprised if you see her on the runway once in a while in her own creation, as a model.
Estella Couture

Interview on : Nigerians in America