Daniel Obaweya aka @nigeriangothic playing dress up at James Veloria.Photo: Courtesy of Liana Satenstein / @liana_avaThe Instagram account @nigeriangothic is one of the most information-packed archive feeds on the platform. There you’ll find an old JanSport ad from the early 2000s, a photo of Missy Elliott smoking a joint from a 2000 issue of Vibe magazine, the animated opening of Toni Braxton’s “He Wasn’t Man Enough for Me,” and a black-and-white photograph of a Hajendoa warrior from Sudan that dates back to 1938. Dazed editor in chief Ib Kamara, fashion label Wales Bonner, editor Dan Thawley, and model Paloma Elsesser are all followers, though the mysterious owner of the account has never revealed himself, preferring to let the images speak for themselves (a rarity in the fashion industry). The account is run by Daniel Obaweya, a 23-year-old from Lagos, Nigeria, who spends hours on the Internet, clicking through and amassing stellar images. His curation has gained him gigs too: He’s worked with the London label Mowalola and Dazed, and researched extensively for a shoot about auntie culture in Nigeria that was styled by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson and published in the November 2020 issue of Vogue.Obaweya has been in New York for…
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