{"id":2338,"date":"2011-08-18T14:53:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T18:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork?p=2338"},"modified":"2011-08-18T14:53:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T18:53:22","slug":"the-fabulous-life-of-an-ankaranista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/the-fabulous-life-of-an-ankaranista\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fabulous Life of an &#039;Ankaranista&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/08\/Ankaranista+african+print+handbags+Tote+obileye+ciaafriquedotdon.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/08\/Tote-my-girl.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2340 lazyload\" title=\"Tote-my-girl\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/08\/Tote-my-girl-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/08\/Tote-runaway-weekender.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2341 lazyload\" title=\"Tote-runaway-weekender\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/08\/Tote-runaway-weekender-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDesigner <strong>Bola Obileye<\/strong> only discovered her true affinity for fashion design when she moved back to Nigeria in 2001 after living in the United Kingdom for over seventeen years.\u00a0 She had previously worked as a fashion blogger, stylist, writer, and publisher, but had never actually tried her hand at the design end of the business until now.\u00a0 Her ankara and leather collection is truly amazing.\u00a0 You can definitely see the African inspiration in her designs, but they are not overpowering or obnoxious.\u00a0 It is just enough to get the point across in a beautifully artistic way.\u00a0 When asked about her inspiration for the line called <strong>&#8220;The Ankaranista&#8221;<\/strong> (which I could not love the name more) she said, <em>\u201cGod  is my number one inspiration, he opens my eyes to the beauty of  everything in life..from birds to people to shapes and  colors..inspiration comes from all sources..but first from God!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: Ciaafrique<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designer Bola Obileye only discovered her true affinity for fashion design when she moved back to Nigeria in 2001 after living in the United Kingdom for over seventeen years.\u00a0 She had previously worked as a fashion blogger, stylist, writer, and publisher, but had never actually tried her hand at the design end of the business&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,73,75],"tags":[82,83,116,559,560,561,234,562,563],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}