Personality we admire: Styled by the Q

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When you put together a model, a fashion designer and awesomeness, what do you have? Styled by the Q!
Styled by the Q is a fashion brand owned by Tomiwa, a resident of Lagos State, Nigeria. Born February 24,1996. She’s studying Mass Communication in Yaba College of Technology. She’s a sister to TobyGrey, the female Nigerian music act. The Q is a brand to look out for!

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Tomiwa is still in the process of learning. She is not done with her fashion school though she attended one two years ago but couldn’t complete it because of school. So during her IT break she enrolled into another fashion school. Her aim is getting to certain level of professionalism in cutting and sewing.

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Her inspirations basically come from how she feel, her environment and other fashion designers both home and abroad such as Balmain, Yves Saint Laurent, Duro Olowu.

Her Nigerian inspirations include April by Kunbi and many others. In the next 5 years, Tomiwa wants The Q brand to be international. She plans to expand her fashion business in such a way that her brand will become an household name.

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Tomiwa thinks it’s amazing how African Fashion designers have been able to  westernize African prints and patterns to fit into the international fashion market. Overtime, designers have infused the fluidity of the western culture into African fashion and it has made it more interesting.

People no longer wear just iro and buba to weddings anymore you see ladies showing up in crop tops and jumpsuits which shows how flexible fashion awesome. The whole idea is awesome she says.

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Being a model herself, she intends to use her modeling skills to benefit her career in fashion designing. She believes she can always model her outfits and put them out there.

It’s not in all cases you need to pay a model to bring your outfit to life, if you have the features you may as well do it yourself. It’s a plus. Her parents are huge supporters of her work. Her other hobbies are drawing/sketching, dancing and disturbing people. She can’t do without wristwatch, shades and bangles.

Recently, she launched her Royal Urban Men Collection. She really loves African prints. She still see herself as an upcoming fashion designer. She’d stop seeing herself in that light until Rihanna wears her pieces on a regular basis.

Her advice for upcoming designers like her is to always believe in your talent, work hard, stay hungry and trust God.

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You can follow her on instagram @styledbytheq and her personal account is @theq___
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5 Comments

  1. Tomiwa has always been a fashion icon back I’m Yabatech, I’m not surprised at these awesomeness she’s putting together!!!!!

  2. Her creative is just amazing. Watch her create something out of nothing almost everytime n still baffles me till date. I find myself a fan n still jump outta of the seat everytime I see her new collections. #ForzaTheQ

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