Maryanne Alabi, professionally known as MAYREEJAY, is an internationally recognised fashion consultant, creative director, and image architect shaping contemporary fashion across Africa and the global style industry. With nearly two decades of experience, she is renowned for creating powerful visual identities, elevating brands, and curating timeless fashion narratives that merge luxury, culture, and modern sophistication.
A graduate of the London College of Fashion, MAYREEJAY has styled for major international fashion platforms including London Fashion Week, Lagos Fashion Week, Africa Fashion Week London, and global campaigns connected to the FIFA World Cup. Her portfolio spans celebrated designers, luxury brands, and some of Africa’s most influential artists and public figures.
Recognised as one of Nigeria’s leading fashion stylists, her work has been featured internationally through platforms such as Zalando, FRUK Magazine, Genevieve Magazine, and THISDAY Style, including a feature on the iconic Piccadilly Circus billboard in London.
She is also the founder of Booked & Branded by MAYREEJAY — a mentorship and business platform dedicated to empowering the next generation of fashion stylists, creatives, and image entrepreneurs to build globally relevant and profitable brands.
Heneiken Lagos Fashion week 2018 has come to an end but the excitement of attending and witnessing another successful season filled with super amazing and incredible fashion, art and style will stay with me for a long long while.
Day 2 of fashion week had me wearing one of the hottest trends for spring summer 2019, snakeskin. This custom made two-piece made by my personal lagos based tailor sunrah Clothing , got heads turning and jaws dropping. I paired this look up with neon snakeskin shoes, black purse and layers of gold chains.
One of the highlights of my day and outfit was being photographed by the legendary Kelechi Amadi – Obi, it was such an honor to be captured by his lens once again.
Stay tuned for what I wore on day 3 and 4 of fashion week, as well as my favorite designers this season.
Everyone knows London for countless breathtaking, beautiful and iconic locations.
As a true tourist that I am, I had planned to visit London tower bridge and soak in all her glory and gorgeousness. so, on the beautiful Sunday afternoon, I embarked on this journey with my friend.
Just as a kid who gets so excited and jumpy on their first date to Disney land, that was how I was so ecstatic to behold the bridge in its real form. she stands so high up, gorgeous and surreal. All the photos I had seen of her were nothing compared to what my eyes beheld this day.
I had always daydreamed about taking photos on this bridge, and today, my dreams became reality.
If you are ever in London, make sure you visit this bridge, it overlooks the popular river Thames.
Have you visited London’s Tower bridge, how was your experience? I would love to read about your experience.
Another fashion season is upon us and it always feels like Christmas to all of us in the fashion industry, if I may say so myself.
Last season during Heneiken Lagos fashion design week, I curated looks that were sure to be seen on the runway and street style.
After absorbing all the hottest trends during shows I attended during London fashion week and following up on Newyork, Milan, and Paris, I am proud to say I nailed these looks and yes we in the Nigerian fashion industry and style lovers saw a lot of these elements and then some during lagos fashion design week 2017.
It is always a delight to curate runway and street style ideas for every season and help make it easier for people to follow the trends effortlessly.
Be sure to follow me on Instagram to get the scoops on this season’s lagos fashion week runway and street style prediction.
Some people say you can’t get the best or make the best with everything being black, and I say to them, black is beautiful, it is gold, it is solid, it is magic.
I and an amazing team of Nigerian creatives took to the very busy streets in the city of Lagos Nigeria to create timeless fashion stories in an all black everything editorial.
I have always been a fan of Cameroonian model Marie. She is the definition of a goddess.
When I got the call to style an editorial shoot with renowned ace Nigerian photographer Emmanuel Arewa popularly known as spotlightpi and Maria was going to be my muse, I was instantly blown away.
I was ecstatic and so excited to create magic with her.
Here are the first released photos from our photo shoot.
I got invited by fashion scout uk to come see the 2018 graduate students show case and get first hand feel on what these creatives have been up to.
Let me just say it left me so breathless as I marvelled at the creation of these incredible designers who just graduated and haven’t been into the real designing world but their aesthetics and story behind their brands was definitely one to look forward to for seasons to come.
Maddy stringer
Maddy Stringer graduated from Edinburgh college of arts, and specialises in textile and material development ,exploring tactility and three dimensional surfaces for fashion. She showed at fashions fashion uk where u got the opportunity to style her collection and I’m so in awe of what she has created with persian rugs.
Leanne Callon
Leanne Callon, informal arrangement derives from a background focusing on the processes , development and construction techniques that make up a garment. As a knit wear designer she has mastered the art of creating pieces that are technical but exciting using knit wear and carpets.
This I found very interesting.
Leanne Callon and Maryanne
Alice Jardensten has perefctly created garments that tells a story of the best of both worlds ,using different fabrics to break the norm if how we to wear clothes and has successfully created more free ways of expressing oneself through mixing different structures and garment to create yet another garment that creates freedom for the wearer.
I fell in love with her garments and blown away as to how she mixed structures to recreate a master piece.
Alice Jardensten
Rebecca Wilson
Rebecca Wilson creates garments that hopes to improve with age and I can say that she has successfully done that. As a lover of vintage fashion which is believe is time less fashion. Her collection was inspired by the Victorian working class garments with the aim to display the beauty that age creates and the story it starts to tell.
Shagun Chauhan is a graphic designer with a keen interest in illustration as clearly seen in these garments. It was love at first sight for me and I would gladly love every piece in my closet.
Everyone of this designers have out in so much time, funds and resources to create amazing garments that tell very relatable stories that in turn inspire us and best of all make us crave to have their garments in our closets.
To see more of these designers please visit their Instagram pages :
Paul Costelloe creates a joyous collection in an area of rainbow colours and optimistic sihouettes, powerful enough to stop the traffic from Piccadilly in London to Madison avenue in a sunny , spring morning in New York.
From pure silk blends from Lyon and comp to rich, crisp linens from emblem Weaver’s of Ireland and intricate Italian jacquards in fresh, modern floral and graphic prints .
I particularly loved the styling of this collection , the white socks paired with white boots and the over size bags were to die for .
This presentation was all shades of awesome. Loved it so much.
For his Spring summer19 debut at London fashion week, Nabil Nayal, becomes the first designer to host his presentation at the British library on the official London fashion week schedule.
His love for the classic white shirt is further redefined, the shirt- form offers a putitan back drop that white washes the complex hand cur embellishments made of bonded poplins and Marcella. Cape like silhouettes are synched , heightening drama as dark taffetas erupt into skirts and sleeves.
When I received the invitation for Gayeon Lee’s London fashion week presentation, I was excited to see that there were going to have dancers and i wondered how the presentation would be.
It really was amazing and dreamy with ballet dancers doing this routine while the models walked, such a calm and transcending scene.
I really loves the shoes and the details on some of the garments.
To see more of Gayeon Lee ,head on to their Instagram.
Do you love this collection? Please share your thoughts.
I recently came across an Asian women’s luxury brand that creates such beautiful garments for women of all age and color.
Each piece has been carefully made with the best of fabric, detail and cuts, elements that would make you not sleep well at night if you don’t own one of these verstile and timeless pieces.
This was how I felt when I saw the DeWe DeWe garments. They are so luxe, and breathtaking.
I personally love clothes that are timeless, where you can wear them multiple times in different ways and they make you feel so beautiful and powerful.
I really do hope DeWe DeWe will come into the Nigerian fashion market as they sure have what we need.
See some of their new spring summer 2019 collection which just featured for the first time during London fashion week.
To see more of DeWe DeWe please go to their Instagram page to see more.
Would you wear their pieces? Do let me know your thoughts.
