Designer, Phoonmy Afrika took to her Instagram to call out actress,
Mercy Aigbe for showing off a dress she made for her and tagging another
designer..
Read what she wrote after the cut…
“As someone who had worked behind the camera in the Nigerian
Entertainment Industry popularly called Nollywood and now a Fashion
Designer, I picked an interest in two Nollywood Stars @mercyaigbegentry
and @jumokeodetola for two different reasons but as the Yoruba adage
says: Isunmoni la nmo ise eni. On a closer look you get to know that
these people are not what they portrayed. Jumoke Odetola in her case
lived up to standard as we approached her to flaunt one of our designs
on social media, she responsibly did as agreed an even advertised our
company to a few friends while Mercy Aigbe on the other hand collected
the sewn garment, wore it to occasions, flaunted it on IG and refused to
tag our Company which was the gentleman agreement we had. The problem
here is not the fact that Mercy did tag us but her mannerisms when we
approached her. Mercy slyly responded well to our chat saying she would
do a ‘rerock’ and tag us but immediately blocked our comments on our
post then blocked us on instagram. We put a call through to Jumoke who
acted as our link to Mercy tried to pacify the situation but another
conversation with Jumoke’s manager spurred our anger. According to Mr
Abiodun Jimoh @abeyjomo, on telling Mercy Aigbe that she shouldn’t have
worn the clothes since she knew she wouldn’t give the Company that gave
her the garment the credit, Mercy had replied that she has worn it and
there’s nothing anyone can do about it. When we sent a message through
Mr Jimoh that we would like to have our garment back. Mercy said it they
can come and pick it, she later said No! She would not give it back.
The big questions are? Did Mercy believe we gave her our clothe as
Charity? Is she from a motherless baby’s home? Does she feel so
untouchable because she is a cheap star that she is? Does she by anyway
know with whom she is dealing with? Things are about to get messy with
Mercy and she should be ready for us because if we have to rip our
clothes off her skin, we will… just to have it back.”
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