Lexy Mojo Eyes

Biography

Since 1990 to date, Lexy has worked assiduously and successfully changed and repositioned the face of Nigeria and African fashion through innovative mentoring, an astute creative knack, and relentless zeal to make existing fashion professionals and the ambitious younger generation particularly empowered women in fashion to look inward to using local African fabrics, accessories, and designs. His drive, spanning over three decades, has inspired and impacted the past, present, and future generations of African fashion practitioners.

His work in this regard has positively impacted not only the fashion, garment and textile industries but also the value chain, i.e models, hairstylists, make-up artists, fabric weavers, accessories producers, etc.

In this measure, and as the glowing face of African fashion, he has been able to situate Africa fashion on the world stage, having addressed the United Nations, the African Union on empowering African local communities through the garment and fashion industry. He has promoted and showcased African fashion on runways in over 37 countries and all continents around the world. Notably, New York, Paris, Milan, London, to mention a few.

Since 2013, he has repositioned Legendary Gold Limited to promote pan-Africanism. The first product of this initiative is Africa’s Biggest Pan African Festival, called Africa Celebrates, which is co-organized and hosted by the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Africa Celebrates is aimed at fostering African integration by highlighting the continent’s rich cultural heritage, which can serve as a catalyst for social and economic growth, and by promoting intra and inter-African trade and tourism. Africa Celebrates also encourages Africans and the rest of world to patronize Made in Africa by eating our food, wearing our clothes, appreciating our music, dance, films, arts, crafts, and heritage.

In partnership with J4ward Global Ltd, Africa Celebrates is introducing a diaspora component called Diaspora African Konnect. It will comprise of a panel session.

Diaspora Africa Konnect serves as a vehicular conduit to drive, attract and engage the Africa diaspora back home to Africa to do business and join the engendered transformation and developmental initiatives of the African Union in exploring the AfCFTA initiative and in realisation of the AU vision 2063 – The Africa we want.