Isoken Ogiemwonyi is a graduate of Law from the University of Nottingham, she also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Hospitality Administration from GHIE, Switzerland and an MSc in Management from BPP, London at the age of 25. She became the co-founder of Winterfell Ltd, which owns Le Petit Marche and LEspace trademarks, Nigeria. She emerged winner of MTN/British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur in 2012 at the MTN Lagos Fashion and Design Week held October 24th 2014.
Isoken joined the fashion business in 2006 and has been relentless in her pursuit for creative greatness, as she is the owner of Obsidian Label, which was launched in 2009. The Obsidian brand appeals to every woman who likes to express herself in a variety of ways without restrictions. To her, fashion is current expression as she defined style as expression. Her work is inspired by a plethora of things ranging from periods of time, various forms of design, characters she admires real or fictional, pop culture, music, movies, etc. but the main inspiration is whatever specific feeling she wants to invoke in her customers. Funny enough, the name LEspace which is French for the space was gotten when they were looking for a name for the business and envisioned a space that would carve out a unique niche for itself in Lagos and give customers a confident feeling that they could acquire a wide array of not only products, but services also.
LEspace was founded in December 2011 as a one-stop multi brand store offering fashion products, produced by Nigerian designers, and beauty and lifestyle products owned by Nigerian entrepreneurs. With LEspace, brands who are ready to take the next step and go beyond testing the market, have the opportunity to take advantage of a more stable and constant point of sale. Its target market and current clientele is young professionals (not exclusively women) who are looking for a place that fulfills their fashion needs. Her other business, Le Petit Marche (LPM) was launched in February 2008 and is a monthly fashion and lifestyle market that operates as a low cost retail platform for Nigerian designers, fashion entrepreneurs and other retailers. LPM has become a firm fixture in the Nigerian fashion industry, providing both social and commercial elements for designers and shoppers. It has been a launch pad for many breaking into the industry and they have benefitted from LPM’s vast media channels promoting their products and services. Isoken is presently working on an online store which will soon be functional with partnership from the Kamdora Initiative. Her dreams for LEspace are firstly to be a global fixture and secondly to continue to refine and develop their distinct DNA and to be sn estsblished company with innovative ethos.
She has been privileged to meet the renowned Fashion Designer and Business man, Sir Paul Smith at the London Fashion Week. Isoken is a lady that is determined to make a mark in this country.
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