
These vibrant and bold wares won’t fade into the background.



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Mar 23, 2022
Ogechukwu Ajibe has crammed a hole in the industry with her playful additionally-sized fashion—but it’s a hole she didn’t even know existed right up until she moved to Vancouver. “In Nigeria, just about everybody’s physique is major. I didn’t know this was an situation,” she says with a giggle. In 2016, Ajibe went to trend school and started out blogging and styling, once in a while stitching her have apparel for shoots. She participated in a trend exhibit at SFU on a whim, and was stunned when an viewers member asked to purchase one particular of her attire.
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Right here, the designer wears her Harmony wrap top rated. Image: Evaan Kheraj.
“She was a Black woman with hips and boobs, and explained they did not make clothes like this in her measurement,” Ajibe remembers. She offered the gown for $55 and determined to try her hand at producing customized garments. She made and crafted created-to-get attire for proms, weddings and other activities, and when organization slowed all through the pandemic, she released her eponymous label, Oge Ajibe.
Her Liberty dress doubles as a jacket. Image: Evaan Kheraj.
Given that then, the designer has expanded her studio and now employs dwelling sewers throughout the metropolis, many of them mothers with younger little ones. Fun prints and vibrant colours make her perform stand out from the ultra-blah neutral hues of most in addition-sized style. “My clients are worn out of putting on the exact same point all the time,” states Ajibe. Her attire, jumpsuits and lounge sets (readily available in XS to 6XL) are adaptable, but not standard. “What I am undertaking is not new—I’m just accomplishing it in a way that can match every person,” she suggests. “That’s the way it need to be.”
The attractive Glory costume will come in a beautiful silk organza. Picture: Evaan Kheraj.
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