Mai Atafo
Fashion designer, Mai Atafo, tells Ademola Olonilua why he left the corporate industry to become a fashion designer
Why are you always clean shaven?
When I shaved my hair a long time ago, my
girlfriend at the time decided to marry me. So in order to keep her, I
thought that I should maintain the hair style. I like it because I think
it is easier to maintain.
I think that as you grow older, you tend to
do things that you are more comfortable with. I am not that comfortable
with my beard but my wife likes it. I am growing it for her but at the
end of the year, I am taking it off. I have kept it for two years and
that was our deal.
You are always wearing three piece suits. How many of them do you have in your wardrobe?
If I tell you I do not know, that would
be the truth. Apart from my wardrobe in the house, I have another one in
the office. As I make suits for clients, I make for myself which I keep
in my personal wardrobe in the office. So I don’t know the number of
suits that I have but, I don’t think I have less than 30 suits.
How come you hardly wear African attire?
I do wear natives and I make them too.
Funny enough, the time I wear them are not the times I make public
appearances. Most times I wear them when I go to church and these days, I
wear them on Fridays.
