Meet the lady whose love and enthusiasm for the style trade are apparent and undoubtedly evident to all, closely pushed by her need to see others mirror their real magnificence through what they put on. She is Oghenemarro Victory, additionally known as Marro. She is the mind, the originator, and the artistic power behind the attire line “Marro Designs.“

“Marro Designs” is a particular model that attracts inspiration from the pure surroundings and native cultures, and her sense of afro-western fusion transcends the boundaries of the trendy trend trade. She creates distinctive clothes for males, ladies, and youngsters in order that the entire household could categorical themselves as a complete, beautiful entity through fashion. Utilizing quite a lot of supplies, together with African native print material, Western plain and sample material, and punctiliously obtained equipment, Marro Designs is a contemporary attire enterprise that infuses classic class into modern design.

As a younger woman who was born and raised in Nigeria, her need drove her to prioritise her love of the style trade. Her mom’s affect and her early curiosity for trend impressed her to hitch in an apprenticeship programme with Caroline Trend Home in 2005. At age 15, the place she discovered about and specialised in ladies’s and youngsters’s attire, alongside attending highschool. She went on to include males’s put on into her line of clothes after finishing an apprenticeship with SteveMash Clothes in 2009. 

Marro continued her training on the Delta State Polytechnic in Ogwashi-uku, Nigeria, the place she studied trend design and clothes expertise. She acquired a excessive distinction for her Larger Nationwide Diploma. She relocated to the UK along with her household in 2019 and continued to develop her fashion and model whereas donning it. She was shortly recognised for her originality whereas carrying her model. Her love, enthusiasm, perseverance, sense of fashion, and inventiveness earned her a “Trend Energy Home” in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. This resulted in her being acknowledged as Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire’s finest modern clothier” and profitable the Trend Artwork Media Award in the course of the Aberdeen Trend Week. 

What sort of self-image would you like individuals who put on Marro Designs to have?In different phrases, they’re carrying a chunk that serves as a reminder that trend is round, and I would like them to really feel distinctive and put on it with satisfaction figuring out that they’re part of trendy trend consciousness that encourages individuals to not neglect the very starting of trend in historic instances. After I obtain giant purchases or household packages, I’m particularly delighted as a result of it evokes me to hold on with my enterprise.

What steps do you’re taking to make sure that your provide chain and manufacturing course of align together with your thought of up to date trend?

There are 3 main processes to manufacturing,

1. Sourcing the material

2. Supplies/equipment to supply clothes

3. Sample making and garment development.

Over time I’ve been in a position to get a sustainable stream of provide and continued to maintain updated with present market survey for materials and supplies which are distinctive to my area of interest so this provides me astonishing ultimate consequence.

What are your ambitions for the model as we head in direction of the top of this 12 months 2023? 

I need to construct a powerful model whereas sustaining its distinctive area of interest for modern clothes thereby constructing a enterprise web site the place merchandise will be seen and ordered all around the world as I’m already engaged on producing excessive quantity “able to put on” clothes. I additionally goal to community and have interaction with like minds which is able to assist enhance my expertise and information within the trend enterprise/trade.

You may join with the model on LinkedIn: Oghenemarro Offeh and Instagram: @marro_designs

Affiliation Membership: 

UK Trend and Textile Affiliation, UKFT

Trend Designer Affiliation of Nigeria, FADAN

African Trend Improvement and Empowerment Centre, AFDEC