Qlue Magazine

Can you Identify your Penis?

Some ugly news we heard during childhood, so scary that we pray never to experience it. It is crazy, the people it happened to we praise them for early discovery because we still wonder how quickly they discover they’ve been robbed.

This kind of robbery is different, they don’t come for your property or gadgets, sometimes they won’t even say a word to you before they rob you, still I wonder why…

Have Sex with Me

Nora. Photographed by Mouyor Buttons

Have sex with me, I wish and want your body. You’re attractive and my butterflies can’t control themselves whenever you’re around, they’re more colorful instead because your energy sets free.

I lust after your body and I’m not shy to say that. It’s more than the body to me, more than the curves, lips and breast. Your vibe, wisdom and joy add to this lust, it’s…

Naomi Campbell at Arise Fashion Week 2019

We want all the credit, all the glory for our style, how pretty we can dress because we dress ourselves most times. We’re our stylist, our decision is all that matters because we know what we want to look like, we have the image in our head so we dress accordingly to boost our ego and the persona we want to create. Our fashion is the depiction of the…

Difference Between Money and Wealth

Model – Susan (MGFN 18 Queen, Photography by Mouyor Buttons

What does it really mean to create wealth for people, for humanity as opposed to money for governments and corporations? Much has been said about the difference between money and wealth and how we, as individuals, can make more of the latter, but the divergence between the two is arguably even more important the larger scale of nations…

The Stories we tell Ourselves

We can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can’t grasp it.” Paradoxically enough, the fragment of the universe we seem least equipped to grasp is the truth of who we ourselves are. Who are we, really, when we silence the ego’s shrill commands about who we should be, and simply listen to the song of life as it sings itself through us?

Depths of the human experience and…

Beyond Particular Conceptions of Beauty

To recognize that there are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives is to step outside the self, beyond its particular conceptions of beauty which includes, of course, moral beauty and walking beside it with humble, nonjudgmental curiosity about the myriad other selves afoot on their own paths, propelled by their own ideals of the Good. Nature and art uniquely train us. Murdoch defines what we…

Use of Information and Data

Better information can  mean more interesting jobs for workers, more knowledgeable customers, more interesting schools, and citizens who have a voice in the decisions their government makes. A “digital nervous system” can improve business, how you gather, manage, and use information will decide whether you win or lose.

it’s efficient processes! It’s quality! It’s winning market share and…

The designers at the pop up store created pieces that will make you proud of our fashion industry, brands we did not know we have. That’s the beauty of LFW, the theme this year is Beyond Creativity, the business of fashion and the moral of fashion is the lesson, fashion is beyond clothes.

On the runway designers blew our mind away, they made us applause with excitement. Mai Atafo’s collection did it for me, I was expecting his signature but he surprised us. Ejiro Amos Tafiri, Ugo Monye, Emmy Kasbit’s collection is top on my list to style with and to own, House of Kaya right now got me listening to Sudanese songs, it’s the combination of everything, thrills of the clothes, the styling, his collection is decent and sexy with northern fashion influence. Every culture have their fashion, it’s beautiful if you appreciate it.

Ugo Monye’s Collection

I like to call Ugo Monye’s collection Egyptian and Military, revamping traditional wear with a military vibe. Lagos Space Programme’s collection I’ll die for, especially the cotton woven cardigan. This Is Us pieces I love too, these designers showed us we could wear our own and be stylish. Creativity is embedded in us, these designers channeled their creativity into fashion, defining the industry. They are doing their part; the other part is left for the society to buy. The complain used to be Nigeria designers can’t design, LFW proved that myth wrong, Nigeria designers are mad (in a good way), the only way to celebrate them and encourage of course is to patronize them and let’s define our fashion together.

Reading about designers creativity is always interesting and thrilling, you’ll surely wonder what the designer was thinking when creating some pieces you can’t stop wanting, Maxivive. His collection is so cool and creative, he is a wizard, how he attracts you to his show is interesting. At the pop up store at Ikoyi, he gave out a brown envelope, it was an invitation to watch his show the next day and not an invitation if you did not buy the ticket to watch the show, there was #20 in every envelop. I still wonder what that was for, but it’s attractive and not what you’ll expect, the gesture is art and whatever reaction you gave is spontaneous, not what you’ve planned which makes you feel dazed and wow at the same time. Every of his piece speak for themselves, you’ll understand who the person wearing the clothe is. Like the piece Abiola Sonaike wore, I called it military nun, TG Omori’s piece and his attitude killed it, the gracious way he walked on the runway, the crowd could not hold back their excitement and his smoke made the crowd more proud.

Abiola Sonaike wearing Maxivive

Maxivive’s collection preach freedom and equality, you can wear anything you choose to wear, don’t think for the society how they will perceive you, be you and wear whatever you want to wear. Kelechi Amadi’s excitement every time he’s shooting make me always anticipate what the final work will look like, he’s always happy and excited, among the numerous photos that’ll flood the internet, Kelechi’s you’ll still want to see. Image Faculty made watching it from any screen interesting.

The projection is, in some many few years to come our population will be of active people, guess the “you’re the leaders of tomorrow” statement is finally in view. What we do now will spark the country of our dreams, there is a Nigerian Dream, it’s beautiful and green. Your version of that dream will contribute to this country positively or negatively, the question is, will you want the next generation to bless us or cause and lay blames on us like we do the generation that gave birth to us.

We’re growing our fashion community, we have high hopes to correct and get right the challenges of other fashion industries, especially the issue of size. Our hope is to see our popular kind of body/size on the runway, in this society the popular size is not 0 or 2. Since these designers produce for this society, it will be normal to show our popular body on the runway, it will shape and define our industry and instead of criticizing us they’ll appreciate us instead, for solving and designing for the popular bodies. Models treatment too, though they look happy and professional on the runway, some of them went through humiliation before they could walk.

The show ended well and fun, I’m sure will be more fun for people that made it to the after party, me and friend got home very late and stoned the night away.

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TG Omori in Maxivive

Abiola Sonaike wearing Maxivive

Ugo Monye’s Collection

Maxivive’s Invite

Maxivive Collection

Maxivive

Silk for Better Sleep

Silk pillowcases are reported to provide impressive beauty benefits including preventing wrinkles and avoiding bedhead.

“Silk fibres are significantly less absorbent than many other materials, so they can help keep your skin’s moisture and expensive face and hair products where they belong…on your face and hair, where they can work their anti-aging magic,” explains Fiona Stewart, CEO and Founder…

Kanye is Trailblazing Sustainability in Fashion

Aside from making strides in the fashion field, his latest album, Jesus is King, is one Kanye West piece to have now. Sustainability in fashion is making major strides too and Kanye is trailblazing the movement, his bringing fashion production for his brand Yeezy in-house. Yeezy is projected as one of the chicest, coolest brands out.

“I was looking for a place to set up the Yeezy campus. I was…

Can’t help but think and lament about my society and what it’s turning into, some days you’ll wake up with so much hope and some days you’ll pray for the progress of this country. Things happening at this time are ridiculous, almost impossible for you to imagine, new corporate ethics that’s ruining the brand image of corporate bodies, but they have no option because the mind of the majority in…

Just for comparison sake, the flexibility of smoke and the cloud. Looking at the cloud, you can’t help but wonder how magnificent it is, too incredible to describe, wallowing in that wonder you’ll stare at the sky for almost forever, like it’s the first time you’re seeing the cloud. The colors and its movement are interesting, the shape they take when they move, sometimes it seems to make an…

Competition of Sin Between Sodom and Gomorrah and Now

Photography by Ren Hang

The debate is this generation has out sinned Sodom and Gomorrah. Some though believe we are not close to how much they sin that time, the thought is for God to have destroyed them at that time, their sins most have been grievous. God would have wiped us out if we’ve sin up to how they’ve sinned, but he’s a merciful God, guess he’s been merciful upon this generation because…

Fashion as Coping Mechanism

It’s horrible times we’re living in, many depress people walking on the street struggling to survive through the day, many want to live even though they’re tired of the seasonless brokeness and lack of the things they desire to live life. This time is trying times for many; not only in my society but around the world as environment keep depleting and government implementing policies that makes…

Wana Sambo First Bridal Collection

Wana Sambo brand has designed impeccably tailored ready-to-wear garments for the Wana Sambo Woman’s everyday life. We’ve celebrated anniversaries, awards, graduations, promotions, etc, and we’ve enjoyed every milestone. Wana Sambo desire to celebrate an even bigger milestone left us longing for that garment that honors one of the best days of the rest of Wana Sambo Woman’s life; the day she…

To Ewa From HIM; HBD

I wish you the world and everything in it today

A wish and many is all I can afford today,

I wish I could bring all I wish you to life,

but it’s just a wish.

Since it’s just a wish, I guess I’ll have to wish for the biggest thing

Because you’re valued and appreciated

Not by me alone but the world is grateful you’re here

No one can have your kind of vibe,

You’re out of this world, dope and chick.

Kanye West and Virgil Abloh

My hero now does gospel music, worshiping God is the vibe of the moment, knowing him is what’s trending. The energy is different when you worship and praise God, pure and clean, the reason I was not surprised when Kanye performed with his choir at coachella and his new album. Lana and God are in good times too, she now goes to church on Wednesdays and Sundays, God is…