Creative Director of fashion brand, Ayo Van Elmar has come a long way in the African fashion industry since her debut at the LFDW 2013 where I first met her. Ayo hasn’t just built her clothing brand and expanded on collaborations with celebrities, today she is the founder of Lagos’ foremost fashion cafe – Ayo Van Elmar Fashion Cafe located at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos.
In a candid one-on-one, Ayo talks about the perks and challenges of working in the Nigerian fashion scene as a designer, the benefits for both designer and celebrity brand collaborations, and is it necessary for designers to do runways to succeed?
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