TV Personality, Daari Oruwari showed up styled by Style Territory in an Iro and Buba ensemble  and the duo won the prize money for best dressed.

Shortly after the event, the pair got called out on Instagram by Creative Director Laila Cadne for allegedly stealing the look from her. According to her, she had previously styled this particular look for a photo shoot. She also had pictures to prove it.

Here is a post Laila published on her Instagram page:

In response to Style Territory’s claim that she had no idea that Laila existed, Laila posted a screenshot that shows Style Territory commenting on this same look months ago:

Style Territory also took Instagram, to bash Laila, insisting she did not know who she was. See  below:

I understand that coming up with ideas can be pretty difficult for creatives and that sometimes, you depend on other creatives’ ideas for inspiration. It is totally okay. The least that people can do is give proper credit for a creative work. People put in a lot of work into creating things. Don’t take out ideas from a person and deliver to a client without explaining firstly where the idea was gotten from.

In fact, in legal terms, there is a term for utilizing the same expression of an idea without proper credit. It is called plagiarism.

We hope that other creatives learn from this experience and begin to do things the right way.

These Lagos streets are buzzing and we can’t contain our excitement for this amazing comedy drama!

The premiere will definitely be a showstopper with our stars glammed up ready to strut the red carpet with all eyes on them at this exclusive invitation-only premiere.

With N1 million up for grabs, who will be the best dressed?

Here’s how to Win (You have to really BRING IT on the red carpet)

First winner (Best Dressed) N500,000

2nd Runner Up N250,000

3rd Runner up N150,000

Date:Sunday, 16th of June 2019

Dress Code:  Eko For Show (Show us exactly what you’ve got, you know Eko never carries Last!)

Venue: Filmhouse Cinemas, Lekki phase 1

*Terms and Conditions Apply*

About the Movie

The Bling Lagosians is about the affluent, brash, flamboyant, audacious and most times over the top lifestyle of Lagosians. The movie shows the lifestyle of a Lagos family that is presently living in their past glory. Although, they are not as wealthy as they once were, they still want to live that lifestyle they once used to live. They want to host the talk of the town kind of party, they want to wear the best designer clothes and ride the fastest of cars even if they are wallowing in debt. This movie is intended to show how people go the extreme to keep up appearances in the society.

Watch the trailer.

Derin, who is a popular fashion blogger, recently took to her Instagram page, to share her experience about being a victim of body shaming. The petite beauty noted that despite all the evil comments people make about her size, they will never destroy her self-esteem.

She shared the photo below, along with caption:

Few days ago I posted a picture of myself in this outfit… Such a gorgeous outfit from @imadeduso_ and @sb_artistry also taught me how to highlight my face and I had my @hikkyshair on so believe me that you couldn’t tell me nothing on this day or on any day for that matter . Guess I wasn’t the only one that thought the outfit was cute because a lot of pages reposted which brings me to this story. Asides from everyone loving it, there were so many people who had comments regarding my size, from how skinny I am, to my head being the size of a football pitch LOL, to me being anorexic, having suicide tendencies and maybe not knowing how to carry out the suicide, it was so awful that @bellanaijaweddings had to turn of their comments.. Same day I read all this I had to go to the hospital to run some tests I had been avoiding but I didn’t have a choice as I knew something was wrong with me lately.

Found out that something is wrong and I have a growth inside me, but while waiting for the results to get printed I started thinking that what if I wasnt such a confident person or what if I actually wanted to gain weight but was having issues putting some on, what if I was depressed and as I got bullied, and all these notifications of comments came in and I read all the hateful body shaming comments and also found out about the growth within few hours of each other how would I have handled it all?

But if you actually know me you would know I am totally in love with my body, I cringe when it is even suggested that I am putting on weight, if you don’t know me personally I know you can tell from my pictures and stories how much of a happy person I am and thankfully none of those comments got or will ever get to me, but imagine I was fragile?

Bottom line is let’s all do better, I know I am also guilty sometimes of my thoughts and thinking how different someone would look if they just lost x amount of weight, well except you are my friend and I have opened my mouth to tease you that you are fat or your tummy is big ( I get to do that cause you are my friend sorry Bolanle LOL)

OH yeah this is another picture of my big head in my cute outfit with my ‘Anorexic’ body

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We totally agree with her. We all definitely need to do better! Not just in the way we talk about other people, but in the ways we talk to ourselves. Negative self-talk is just as bad, if not more worse than making depreciating comments about others.

Photo Credit: @derinfromisaleeko