Style Temple Press Kit

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Style Temple is a prestigious women wear fashion house offering made-to-measure and ready to wear services worldwide. Based in Abuja, Nigeria, Style Temple officially launched in 2012, providing solely made-to-measure services. However, after operating without profit for the first 3 years of business, founder and creative Director Ms. Og Okonkwo branched into ready-to-wear services in 2016. The aim was to create designs that was accessible to our stylish women but still maintained the edge that the brand is known and loved for. Leveraging market intelligence combined with years of personal client interaction, Style temple is now renowned for its truly feminine and one of a kind pieces. Style Temple is the interpretation of today’s modern woman; sophisticated, complex and larger-than-life. We are constantly trying to find the balance between construction and femininity, between strength and delicacy. We have found that the women who buy our pieces are more daring than most, they are globally curious, socially conscious and have a desire to stand- out from the crowd. This has enabled Style Temple to carve a niche for itself in the ever- burgeoning fashion industry as the go to brand for women who have a knack for making a lasting sartorial impression.

Key dates and memorable milestones for Style Temple include October 2016 – where we were invited to show our spring/summer collection at the Lagos Fashion week after only a few months of releasing our debut Ready-to-wear collection. We proud to announce today that we received critical acclaim from notable industry figures, press and buyers. Style Temple is inspired first and foremost by women. We have an unparalleled understanding of what women want, and at Style Temple we have made it our mission to deliver that to them –and in doing so setting trends, staying culturally and economically relevant and staying true to who we are. The vision for Style Temple is to become a globally recognizable brand that caters to, and celebrates exceptional women of every background. We hope that at Style Temple, we are able to make women feel beautiful, strong and extraordinary from the inside out. We work tirelessly to transcend limitations and boundaries to ensure that we become an internationally recognized designer brand that will appeal as warmly to European, Asian and American market as we do to the African market. We realize that this is difficult task and one that is yet to be achieved by any brand from the African continent however we are up to the challenge and we progress one step closer with each passing day.

When envisioning and designing our pieces we start by thinking about the Style Temple woman – who she is, who she is evolving into, what she wants, her lifestyle, her aspirations and how she wants to be perceived. Ultimately we create pieces that reflects these factors and if we are being honest this is one of the many reason our clients remain loyal to us. We resonate deeply with them



With over 1300 applicants annually Style Temple Fashion academy (SFA) has managed to keep the industry standards high by successfully graduating 100 young dynamic and versatile designers and fashion entrepreneurs in the past year. Our alumni have gone ahead to grace fashion runways and contribute to the African fashion industry working at different capacities. Our well-seasoned tutors ensure that you learn from the ground up regardless of your skill level under the guidance of our Creative Director, your eye for high fashion is born and nurtured.

From a young age, Og Okonkwo had an eye for design and elegance. She loves to travel and continually finds inspiration for her designs in the different cultures and people she comes in contact with. She grew up surrounded by extremely creative and stylish women in her family who inspired her from an early age to pursue her dream to be a designer. Okonkwo grew up in Nigeria and would often be subjected to societal standards. she is known to rebel against this with clothes that are out-of-the- ordinary, especially for a conservative country.



The brand aesthetics is a combination of classic yet modern fashion and a play on balance between the feminine and edgy. Style Temple diffusion ready-to-wear line is a mixture of structured wearable pieces with a couture edge, clean geometric cuts and shapes with a standout detail. Easy fitted garments that flatter the woman’s body is our signature style. On her latest collection, The creative designer went on a journey to explore what femininity really means to her and other women. She wanted to imagine the way women would dress if patriarchy or double standards did not exist



SOCIAL FOLLOWING Daily Features and Platform Reach Top Locations 1 267K Nigeria 2 157K USA 3 3.8Million 4 1.3Million Ghana 5 49.7K UK South Africa Active Social media following

There is an estimated annual waste generation figure of 72.46million tones in Africa and Nigeria alone generates one fourth of the total waste produced in the continent. This information led to the creation of the Eco-conscious give back initiative - 100 Smiles Campaign, founded by Og Okonkwo and adopted as part of Style Temple’s CSR. We see left over fabrics from our custom and RTW production into wearable pieces for kids in our local communities. This enables us reduce waste to the lowest possible minimum while also putting smiles on the faces of kids who are in need of decent clothing.

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