Art on the body
By YETUNDE OLADEINDE
Friday
September 7, 2007
At the just concluded Nigerian Fashion Week in Lagos, many
fabrics and designs were show-cased. One prominent stuff was
an exclusive fabrics which looks like painting.
Two brothers, Ghadaffi and Faisal Mohammed, are the brains
behind these wonderful creations and they take you into their
world.
Zagfag is the name of their label and it is actually the acronym
of members of the family.
"This skill runs in the family. I went to school to learn
this, but my brother learnt it from an aunt who is skilled
in the art. It was after I graduated from Kaduna Polytechnic
that I decided to be on my own", Ghadaffi says.
He continues: "We are into many things, but our products
are unique from what you see everywhere. We do curtains, interior
décor, shirts, aprons, throw pillows, children’s
wear as well as caftans for men and women."
So far, it has been lucrative, but Faisal recalls that things
were really tough at the beginning.
"Now, the business is getting better and we thank God.
At the beginning, it wasn’t so easy, but gradually,
things are taking shape."Apart from attending to the
needs of their individual customers, the Mohammed brothers
also handle bulk projects.
"We have clients scattered all over Kaduna, Lagos and
abroad. We did a job for Student and Free Enterprise (SIFE),
which was memorable for us. They went to Barcelona, Canada
and France and we clothes them". |
