Award-winning celebrity designer and owner of Mood’deo International, Durojaiye Owolabi has described Nigerian celebrities as “Stingy buyers”.
In a chat with Punch Saturday Beats, he said “most of the celebrities seen on television in Nigeria like wearing cheap clothes or clothes given to them for free.”
According to Owolabi, when he started his business, he was expecting to make it big being a celebrity designer, but was shocked when he realized that some of the big names in the industry wanted free clothes and they always delay in paying him for his services.
“I
see entertainers as celebrities. They dictate what goes on in the
fashion world. I see them as people that have made it, rich and affluent
and whatever they put on has to be the best.
But I have worked with 2face who even paid more than the cost of the item. But people like 2face are scarce in the industry. These celebrities want things for free. This made me change my mind to be doing clothes for the masses because my fashion line is going to end up as an NGO. I thought I could make enough money from being a celebrity designer, then I could turn my business into an NGO for the less privileged kids but things did not work out as I planned.
Sometimes, when these celebrities bargain for an attire, you would be shocked and ask yourself if it is the same person that we see on television.” He stated
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