Tommy Hilfiger tour of Nigeria ends in tears

28 Jan 2011

Tommy Hilfiger tour of Nigeria ends in tears
You know the name, I wear the shirt

 


Lagos - Unbeknownst to many Nigerians, international fashion designer, Mr Tommy Hilfiger, recently visited Nigeria on a fact finding mission, but returned to America crying.

Sources reveal that Mr Hilfiger's company had not paid Nigeria much notice in the past, but when a lot of Nigerians began to 'like' the brand's Facebook fan page, someone within the company wrote a memo questioning the rationale behind ignoring a nation of 150,000,000 Africans, and many, many, rich yahoo-yahoo boys with a penchant for designer clothing.

Thus the stage was set for the American clothier to embark on a secret tour of Nigeria.

According to the source who spoke to wazobiareport.com via Blackberry messenger, for his trip to Nigeria, Mr Hilfiger disguised himself by wearing Lacoste clothes and posing as a visiting Journalist.

His plan was to learn more about the great Nation Nigeria, and to determine how best to penetrate the yet unexploited market.

Things however turned soar when on arriving at Murtala International Airport Mr Hilfiger was greeted by touts wearing polo shirts with the Hilfiger crest.

Not only did Mr Hilfiger not remember ever designing some of the clothes bearing his brand's logo, he was also perplexed to learn that he had a line of African-themed apparels he knew nothing about.

His confusion was compounded when on checking in to his hotel, he discovered Ankara Tommy Hilfiger bedspreads and matching pillowcases.

The shock of discovering a thriving business that dealt in merchandise bearing his name is said to have irked him up to the point of revealing his identity.

Mr Hilfiger took his grievances to the Bar Beach police station where an off duty constable sporting a Hilfiger Kaftan offered to take him to Balogun market where 'Tommy wears' are sold.

A men's outfit retailer who insisted he did not understand how one oyinbo can just show up in his shop and start claiming that the shirts on sale were fake, reportedly offered to make a Mr Hilfiger a tailor made original Hilfiger suit. He even asked him where he wanted the crest to be.

It was at this point that Mr Hilfiger broke down in tears and began to wail in the middle of Balogun market.

The designer has since returned to America and is said to be in therapy.

We tracked down the Balogun trader, Mr Chucks, proprietor of Inamix Designer Wears, and he said:

"You mean that yeye man that come here come dey sing, fake, fake? Nor mind him. Na so our sun dey affect some oyinbo. You know say dem nor get sun for dem own land."

We challenged Chucks on the authenticity of his stock and he told us:

"Look, if true true, that man is the designer they call Tommy Hilfiger, why him dey vex? Nor be help we dey help am to popular his name? In fact ehn, he should go and siddon for one place. Some of this designs I have here in my shop are even better than his owns. And in fact, Shebi his name is Hilfiger? See this find shirt I’m wearing, if you look at the label, na HILIFGINGER, not HILFIGER, so why him dey complain?"

- Mr Jowo Mabinu



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Dee On 11/17/2011 11:40:34 AM
Since he(tommy hilfiger) did not make his clothes available to we Africans we had to do something for ourselves so we wont be left behind in the evolving world of fashion. kudos to my igbo brothers. igbo kwenu
nkruasesem On 10/20/2011 11:33:12 AM
this answers why africa is still what it is.
Tjjeff On 10/14/2011 10:53:31 PM
Haba, the guy suppose tank god no b Alaba market hin go, dey 4 sell am join d market, make he carry paper con go copy d design work untop am b4 he go dey sing nursery rhyme 4 market
TOMMY On 10/7/2011 3:52:00 PM
good job it got me laufin non stop dis is africa we make things happen,,on this continent everybody is somebody designer or no designer you can still wear som and represent hahahaha
African On 10/6/2011 2:10:30 PM
this is the same man who told Opera Winfrey that if he had known black people would wear his label he wudnt have designed it....never been so happy...therapy..ha ha ha
Slicky van snickers On 8/24/2011 3:44:47 AM
This reminds me of a guy dat was in my hostel in secondary skool, his boxers instead of tommy hilfiger,it was tommy hil-finger and it had pictures of spongbob squarepants all over it :D
Dreadlaw On 3/15/2011 10:58:08 PM
A classic case of tummy hisfingered
Victor Ogunbusola On 3/15/2011 1:49:30 PM
I have not laughed so hard publicly like I did reading this report ......lol
Leye On 3/9/2011 9:39:49 PM
Tommy Hilifimger! Lol. Lwkmd!
Donchuks On 2/1/2011 5:32:42 AM
Oboy how iyibo go come from their land come here they talk say an fake way person they sell he get luck say on bi me be the person way they sell the cloths i for push am out nonsense
A.K On 1/28/2011 2:45:40 PM
LOLZ i still dey laugh dey roll for floor wetin concern Ibgo man.
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