Middle Eastern Fashion – Esmod Dubai School

sjfashions introduces Esmod Dubai institution of fashion design students at a glance in years one and two showcasing their end of year collections.

Esmod is the oldest and yet notorious fashion design school in the world that was established in 1841. Esmod has a significant amount of fashion schools internationally across France, Asia, North and South America and in the Middle East which helps to explore new cultures and fashion. sjfashions feels it is valuable for emerging fashion design students and designers to know what else in happening in the fashion world overseas and to see what other people create when it comes to fashion design.

At Esmod Dubai students can enrol on various courses such as Fashion Design Pattern Cutting, Fashion Workshop, Fashion Marketing Certification, Professional Fashion Makeup and Pattern Making.

In both videos you will hopefully be inspired by Esmod Dubai fashion design students creativity and French flair showcasing their final year collections of 2013.

Esmod Dubai

McMeka Couture Collection by African Designer Rodney Emeka

Here at sjfashions we like to source fashion designers from various countries that are unknown to some of us in the UK.

We feel it is imperative to inform fashion students and consumers who have a fetish for fashion to know and understand what else is out there. sjfashions decided to research into in the fashion world of Africa as it educates us all in knowing about designers in various countries so we can get inspiration.

As a result, sjfashions would like to introduce you to McMeka Couture which is a men’s wear brand based in Nigeria, Lagos (West Africa).  McMeka Couture is by young creative director and entrepreneur Rodney Emeka who wanted to focus on the importance of men’s fashion and how they should/would like to dress. The McMeka brand was launched September 2011 and since then as been a huge success on the runway at Lagos Fashion and Design Week over the past two years.

The McMeka Fall 2013-2014 collection is called ‘Work hard Play hard’ which was inspired by rapper Wiz Khalifah’s video “work hard play hard”. The main agenda behind this collection is given to a man who is stylish but yet remains hard-working.

The collection consists of men’s bespoke tailoring with fitted coats and sleek trousers juxtaposed with vintage derby hats (originally known as the bowler hat), loafers, bow ties and vintage suitcases which circa 1920s. Furthermore, the colour palette consists of soft neutrals such as browns, greys and blues with the McMeka Couture ethos of masculinity, versatility, flexibility and expensive clothing.

So, there you have it, an insight into an emerging African fashion designer that you may have not known about and if you did then that’s just fabulous.

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