Odubela Couture has certainly become one of the
greatest designers that has made impact at the on-going African fashion week
taking place at the highbrow Oriental hotel in Nigeria. The African fashion
week has so far paraded and showcased the best of African designers.
Chief Mrs Olubimpe Odubela is not new to the fashion
and high society scene. The wife of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Segun
Odubela, her office is tucked away in upscale Chevron estate in Lekki.
The daughter of a politician who was a Commissioner
in Alhaji Lateef Jakande’s cabinet in Lagos State, Olubimpe Odubela graduated
as a Microbiologist but due to passion for fashion, she started by selling
children clothes at Tejuoso market at Yaba, but before long, she later
relocated abroad when her children got
admission to study overseas.
Having had a trading background with her mom who was
a businesswoman, while she was a teenager, Olubimpe Odubela used the time
abroad to study fashion. And when she returned to Nigeria, it was not long
before she found space among the top designers in Lagos, clothing the rich and influential
in the Nigerian society.
