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Why: To say Tsemaye Binitie is a natural cannot begin to say it all.

Based in London but born in Nigeria, St Jaymes says his time spent living in Enugu and Lagos played a key role in shaping his identity.

Nigerian Tsemaye Binitie excels at luxury sportswear for women.

LAGOS: Weaving contemporary designs into a traditional West African fabric, Nigerian Tsemaye Binitie is creating fashion he hopes can also bridge the gap.

Winner of Womenswear Designer of the Year Award, Tsemaye remains one of the most promising new talents on the Afropolitan design scene.

Nigerian Tsemaye Binitie excels at luxury sportswear for women....

With traditional fabrics, Nigerian designers fashion a new aesthetic

&#;We started to use contemporary African art and culture within the threads of the collection so you see hints of it very &#; obviously (signs),&#; said Binitie, who divides his time between Lagos and London.

Fashion designer Tsemaye Binitie holds his custom Aso-Oke fabric during a workshop in Lagos, Nigeria.

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&#;It&#;s sort of informed fabric, informed colour, informed styling.&#;Priced at between $ and $4,, his TB12 custom collection features Aso-oke – which means &#;top cloth&#; in Yorub &#; in seven different shades.

&#;We are sort of preserving the culture, you know, that we&#;ve watched all our lives in front of us &#; and teaching the younger generation that it is something to be proud of something to want to wear,&#; he told Reuters.

Fellow Lagos designer Lisa Folawiyo specialises in different traditional cloth, the West African wax prints know as Ankara, and her hybrid collection, call