abiodun shade sandra

Abiodun Shade Sandra, CEO Anjy Luminee Couture

She grew  up in her own hometown, Ijesha-Isu in Ekiti state alongside her parents and siblings; her father especially was an advocate of every child to know or learn something handy while my mother was keen on us all getting education at all cost.

Abiodun Shade Sandra enrolled at Ibadan Polytechnic where she bagged National Diploma in Accounting but her mother was not satisfied with the Polytechnic degree alone; so She proceeded to Lagos State University where she bagged a degree in Business Administration. and graduated with 2:2.  

Describing her journey into the fashion world, she disclosed that she has never for once gone to a fashion school to learn the craft rather she was only inspired by her neighbor whom she watched peddle the sewing machine and all she did was go back home and practice using needle and thread.
Recalling those years, Luminee said ‘I liked to craft anything; I will cut pieces of old leather bags and craft it into baby shoes. I used to take my dad’s clothes (agbada) from his basket and cut it with razor blade, then later  sew, use them to something nice. “My dad used to wonder why I was so hardworking as a little girl. At the same time, he would scream out my name in the neighbourhood that I had destroyed his clothes,” she recalls. When asked where she trained as a professional designer, she said I never learnt this profession; as in I didn’t go for any form of training in order to know this job up till now.

Recounting one of her biggest moment; Luminee as she is fondly called noted that one of her biggest moment which also help give her brand more prominence was the dress she made for Aigbe, which she wore to the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA), which won her the best dressed award at the event, and which wowed the over 5,000 guests at the Eko Hotel Convention Centre and a global TV audience.

Luminee has clients both home and abroad, She has made dresses for top socialites, queens and celebrities that’s includes  Mercy Aigbe, Iyabo Ojo, Sola Sobowale, Ini Edo, Oge Okoye, Sonia Ighalo, Fathia Williams, Dayo Amusa, Mide Martins, Queen Ogunwusi, Kemi Afolabi, Bobrisky, Bukola Adeeyo, Eniola Badmus, Ayo Adesanya to mention but few.