The Bronx native credits her Nigerian background with cultivating her unique eye for color and texture:
and Jodie Turner-Smith throughout her career.
Read on for our chat about getting started in the New York editorial world, relocating to Los Angeles, navigating the pandemic, racial equity in the industry and much more.It started when I was young. It really was innate from the culture that I come from, being Nigerian. My parents always went to different traditional events, parties and weddings. My grandma was a pattern maker and designer who would sew up so many different fabrics for my family members and the neighbors.
I really loved the idea of the storytelling aspect with clothes. When I saw what I was doing as an editor, it was putting together the idea, but the execution from the stylists was what drew me in. And I found that what connected to me was the same execution that I would have with helping my grandma.