As heaving, hustle-ready metropolises go, New York and Lagos are perhaps kindred cities.As heaving, hustle-ready metropolises go, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Lagos are perhaps kindred KINDRED. Relations by blood. 2. Nature has divided the kindred of every one into three principal classes. 1. His children, and their descendants. 2. His father, mother, and other ascendants. 3. cities. "Lagos gives you a 'can do' attitude," says architect-turned-designer Tobi Adamolekun of his hometown home·town n. The town or city of one's birth, rearing, or main residence. Noun 1. hometown - the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence; "he never went back to his hometown again" . "But it's also a city where everything is imported. We even import Ankara [a Nigerian fabric] from China as so many textile factories have shut down here." Assembled completely by hand using locally sourced materials, his line of accessories, Atelier Olu, is a small but very important effort to redress some of the imbalance. Traditional fabrics like damask--more commonly used to make head wraps--add unexpected made-in-Lagos swagger to caps and belts, and soft leather duffle bags earn double style points with fully reversible reversible, adj capable of going through a series of changes in either direction, forward or backward (e.g., reversible chemical reaction). reversible hydrocolloid, n See hydrocolloid, reversible. African print capabilities. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CHIOMA NNADI atelierolu.net |
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