Metro Woman Marketplace: Design for Love (Part 1)
By Metro Woman
02 December 2017 |
6:00 am
Oluwunmi funbi-olufeko is the creative director of fashion label, design for love (DFL). She is a graduate of biochemistry and an alumna of Lagos business school and London college of fashion, a membership the distinguished WIMBIZ organization.
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