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Beauty on the margins Beauty on the margins A recent exhibition in Lagos titled UnCommon Beauty champions brave individuals who actualising themselves within the face of oppression Lagos in October is hot, stifling, exhausting. But town has a magic of reviving itself when fashion, art and design weeks come around. In considered one of town’s affluent suburbs, an exhibition unfolds, the massive frames of photographs pegged to lean strings of ropes. In several portraits, star subjects wear gravity-defying gowns, knitted dresses, perch-feathered corsetry, sequinned silhouettes, with faces fully glammed-up; hair, nails and neck all accessorised. Happening October 22, the exhibition, titled UnCommon Beauty, shared a glimpse into the truth and exquisite existence of trans women, drag artists and cross-dressers living in Nigeria – in a...