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Busayo Olupona is a Nigerian-American fashion designer who is the founder of the fashion brand Busayo NYC. She specializes in women's ready-to-wear clothing, and accessories, such as African batik prints.

Early life
Busayo was born in America to Nigerian American Professor, Jacob Olupona, she moved to Nigeria briefly with her family when she was young but returned to the United States when she was 12 years old.

She received a BA Law from the University of California at Berkeley and later attended the New York University School of Law.

After her education she moved to New York and worked for both Patricia Fields and Rachel Roy.

Business and fashion career (modelled after, Tracy Reese, )
During her school days in Davis, California, Busayo Olupona faced teasing from fellow students due to her choice of vibrant-patterned attire crafted from fabric originating from Ife, Nigeria.

she left her job as a corporate lawyer in 2011 to establish a fashion line BusayoNYC but she later rebranded it to her own name BUSAYO.

BUSAYONYC
in 2011, she discovered that she might be able to turn her passion for clothes into a business. She started with african prints saying it reminds her of home. BUSAYO is known for its bold patterns and colorful African-inspired prints made by a traditional Yoruba textile dyeing technique.

Her designs are influenced by yoruba heritage. Her customers clients have included Lupita Nyongo, Madonna, and Leslie Odom Jr,

Michelle Obama. Michelle wore her A-line skirt on the ABC TV show The View. Plange was the Designer of the Year at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week South Africa.

Increased brand exposure
She was select as a cohort of Saks' accelerator programme, The New Wave

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"In a 2011 article in The New York Times, Plange was quoted as stating: "I want to prove to people that African fashion can't be pigeonholed.... I can compete globally." Plange does not use traditional African prints or textiles in her designs. In her Spring 2012 collection, Scarred Perfection, she referenced the body scars that Africans would use as a mode of tribal identification. Plange explains, "I am motivated by those things that make us question how we represent ourselves to other people."

In a 2020 article in " " Busayo was qouted as stating "I wanted to wear things that I thought were at the intersection of my two cultures, clothes that were really print-heavy and dynamic, reflecting my Nigerian background, but that I could also wear to work in the United States." In her collection,

Media appearances and sale of clothing brand
In 2015, she collaborated with furniture designers Roche Bobois to create Mahjong tiles and sofas dressed with her materials that were made in Burkina Faso."