On the Rise: Meet Oge Ajibe, the Size-Inclusive Fashion Brand Made in Vancouver

These bright and daring wares will not fade into the history.



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Mar 23, 2022
Ogechukwu Ajibe has loaded a hole in the sector with her playful in addition-sized fashion—but it’s a hole she didn’t even know existed till she moved to Vancouver. “In Nigeria, nearly everybody’s body is big. I did not know this was an issue,” she claims with a giggle. In 2016, Ajibe went to vogue college and started out running a blog and styling, sometimes stitching her possess clothes for shoots. She participated in a trend demonstrate at SFU on a whim, and was shocked when an audience member questioned to invest in a single of her dresses.
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Listed here, the designer wears her Harmony wrap leading. Image: Evaan Kheraj.
“She was a Black lady with hips and boobs, and reported they didn’t make apparel like this in her size,” Ajibe remembers. She marketed the costume for $55 and resolved to check out her hand at earning custom made apparel. She built and crafted made-to-get dresses for proms, weddings and other occasions, and when organization slowed through the pandemic, she launched her eponymous label, Oge Ajibe.
Her Liberty costume doubles as a jacket. Image: Evaan Kheraj.
Since then, the designer has expanded her studio and now employs house sewers across the city, a lot of of them mothers with young small children. Entertaining prints and dazzling colours make her function stand out from the extremely-blah neutral hues of most as well as-sized vogue. “My customers are fatigued of putting on the similar matter all the time,” claims Ajibe. Her attire, jumpsuits and lounge sets (offered in XS to 6XL) are versatile, but not basic. “What I am performing is not new—I’m just executing it in a way that can fit most people,” she claims. “That’s the way it should really be.”
The stunning Glory dress arrives in a spectacular silk organza. Image: Evaan Kheraj.
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