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Etsy

Posted On April 24, 2014By Akinyemi OgunsanyaIn Business, Fashion

Etsy acquires Grand Street

Etsy – the New York based online marketplace for independent businesses and the maker movement, has made a move into indie electronics. It has just announced the acquisition of Grand Street, a Brooklyn-based startup. Grand Street bills itself as the marketplace for creative technology. The terms of the deal are “subject to closing conditions.” Grand Street states that: Simply put: the rise of the individual, small-batch maker is changing product development, production and commerce. The process of making physical goods is shifting as consumers are more interested in unique and personalizedRead More
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Posted On August 2, 2013By Adetunji Openiyi (freeshype)In Business, Design, Fashion, Gaming, Media

Kuluya Partners with Giddimint To Launch T-Shirt Line

For all staunch supporters of Nigerian gaming companies, here’s a kicker. Kuluya is partnering with online fashion store and fellow Spark.ng company, Giddimint. The partnership will see Giddimint retailing t-shirts that showcase art designed by the graphic professionals at Kuluya. The series dubbed Kuluya Gear is available at the Giddimint main site for N4,000 – all male and female sizes are also available. Giddimint delivers to customers outside Lagos within 3-5 work days after purchase. Customers within Lagos get their item(s) delivered a day after purchase. It is not yet confirmed whetherRead More
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BlackBerry is the technology sponsor of this year’s MTN Lagos Fashion and Design Week and has given us 2 tickets for you and a friend. The event will run from the 24th to the 27th of October at the Expo Centre, Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos. Young talent such as Ejiro Amos Tafiri and designer Bridget Awosika will be showcased at the event. We’ve got 2 tickets for you and a friend to attend the event. All you have to do is answer the question below. To qualify for theRead More
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Research In Motion in its love for Nigeria and the push of the BlackBerry has teamed up with the Lagos Fashion and Design Week as its official technology partner. The event takes place from the 24th of October to the 27th and will showcase new designs from Young talent on the Nigerian Fashion scene. At the event will be a special BlackBerry booth where users will get free OS upgrades and interact with BlackBerry product people. There will also be an unveiling of a special accessory for the BlackBerry 9900Read More
Nasty Gal

Posted On August 28, 2012By Akinyemi OgunsanyaIn Business, Fashion

LA Fashion Site Nasty Gal Raises $40 million

Red-hot fashion site Nasty Gal has completed its series B round of funding of $40 million from its sole investor, Index Ventures. The site which was launched in 2006 by 28-year old Sophia Amoruso, has experienced exponential growth rates with the comapny and over 60% gross margins putting it on-par with the big names in retail. The company which had sales of $28 million is on track to more than quadruple its 2011 sales to the tune of $128 million. Unlike most Internet firms, Nasty Gal boasts a 350,000-strong loyal user baseRead More
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As we reported earlier, online fashion store, Sabunta has launched. Offering a large collection of shoes, clothes and fashion accesories to the Nigerian online market. Sabunta is Rocket Internet’s second venture in Nigeria. The first  Kasuwa – an Amazon-like website specialising in electronics, launched a few days ago. Orders from Sabunta can be paid for via Electronic Funds Transfer and Cash on delivery. Delivery is currently being handled by Fedex. Debit and Credit cards are currently not supported. There’s also a N1000 voucher for new signups. Kasuwa on the otherRead More
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Amber Rose has announced via Twitter that she was never booked for any show in Nigeria. Amber Rose was supposed to be the host of ‘Music Meets Runway’ a Fashion and Music event organised by La Reeve Events. The Event is supposed to hold on the 9th of July at the Expo Centre of Eko Hotel at 6pm. For now this is all we know as La Reeve hasn’t responded to this report. We have continued to see Twitter as a mainstream news platform. Last month, D’Banj announced his signingRead More
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Posted On June 13, 2011By Faridah Demola-SerikiIn Fashion, Media

Steve Job’s Sweater Costs An iPad And An iPod

He is known for wearing the same black sweater, light stonewash jeans and white sneakers but we found out which sweater he was wearing at the WWDC keynote last week – yes, they all look the same. According to German luxury fashion label Vonrosen, Steve Jobs was wearing one of their $616 cashmere sweaters. Not bad for a man whose company is now worth more than Microsoft and Intel combined. If you’re more of a colorful lad, the sweater also comes in blue and prune. Nice looking Mr. JobsRead More