Founded by the self-taught Segun Olayeye,
Segun Gele's crown offering is its Head Wrap service, answering questions on how he learnt the
skill:
...I had always used my Mums's head to practice how to wrap the gele and I will give her all the credit for ever allowing me to even try all my "then unprofessional" skills of hair dressing,amateur makeup and ugly head-ties on her
Toyin Adepoju describes the '
Art of Gele' citing a quote by
Babatunde Lawal:
It is art because it transforms the functional into the elegant and mysterious.A covering for the head becomes something much more,a skyward looking arabesque of folds and patterns,where cloth undergoes a metamorphosis into a salute to the head as metaphysical centre of the self,as the matrix of direction for the body
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