We spend the day with the insightful and heavily ADD- afflicted hairdresser Blessed. He takes us through an insane market and then to the salon where he used to work, leading to an unlikely revelation that he--as he alleges most in the industry do--has been “gay-for-pay” to further his career as a stylist. As he says, “In the Nigerian fashion industry, to get ahead you need to be gay or have God.”Speaking of God, Charlet meets up with a former 419 scammer, now turned God-fearing fashion photographer Justice Karo, who once did impressions of females to extort money out of lonely male Australians, but has now turned a new leaf. Despite his new profession as a fashion photographer, he believes that fashion week is the work of the devil.
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