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Summary
At the AMVCA 2025, women didn’t just grace the red carpet. They embodied the eternal bond between women and the Earth. This piece explores how both figuratively and literally.
Beyond the glitz, a deeper truth dazzled at the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA) 2025: the synergy between woman and nature. This year’s theme, Mother Earth, went beyond just a metaphor—it was a mirror of the supreme and divinity of womanhood.
Women, like Earth, carry life and sustain Earth. They shift personas as the Earth shifts landscape and hold multitudes in awe-struck silence. They have the power to bring life forth or end the existence as we know it. So when the AMVCA’s red carpet turned a palette of sea, fire, blossom, root, and stardust, it wasn’t merely a performance of womanhood, but a reflection of its divinity.
In this piece, we explore the significance and yarns—literally and figuratively—of the couture on display at the just concluded AMVCA.
- Mercy Aigbe-Adeoti – Sun, Moon & Stars
- She came dressed in orbit. Mercy was clad in a Veekee James gown that embodied the solar system aesthetic and astronomical. In a sunny red-orange bodice, a milky crater-like moon at her waist, and stars against an inky-night backdrop for the gown’s fall, her look befitted her Best Supporting Actress win.
- Osas Ighodaro – Coral Crowned, Earth Rooted
In an arresting fusion of the floors of the sea and forest, Osas Ighodaro stunned the AMVCA audience. While she has the track record of donning nothing short of breathtaking attire in public outings, this particular look is no less mesmerising.
In what seemed like a nod to the creatures and features of the ground, Osas showed up in a dress that tells of life at sea or in the forest. A headpiece of twigs (or a coral reef) threaded from the spine of her dress to frame her face; greens and browns that looked like moss or seagrass; silver glinting like underwater light, and tiny lifeforms – mushrooms, polyps or clams – all rippling like a tribute to the myriad auras of women. Ancestral saltwater, sacred soil, at times seen or hidden; at once rooted and fluid.
And the pose? A deity invoked from the deep.
- Modella – The Divine Temptress
If this was meant to be striking, it hit the mark.
In a themed narrative that appears to echo the Biblical origins of humankind, Modella took the AMVCA’s red carpet back in time to the Garden of Eden in an Anjy Luminee Couture. The symbolism here is bursting at its seams: a champagne-colored dress; a slithering, ruby-red snake made of threads; bare branches; and a golden haze. It all came together not only in a subtle suggestion of seduction, but of the dual nature of woman —as a life-giving and life-halting force. The background glow, however, along with her head held high, depicts her whole embrace of the Eve character, a cultural subversion by all standards.
- Mo Bimpe – The Gentle Bloom
Mo Bimpe’s looks meet all the hallmarks for the Soft Feminine archetype. Pleasant to the sight and elegantly subdued, she was clad in a soft, blush-pink, petal-styled regalia that whispered all the qualities associated with this persona: feminine, graceful, modest.
The petal ensemble highlighted notions of rebirth, care, and serenity – attributes peculiar to the feminine and nature alike.
- Doyin David – Mother Earth Reimagined
A magical forest rising out of a mystical land is all there is to see at first glance at this attire.
It is Mother Earth reimagined—literally.
The forest green and umber colours, paying homage to the form of a tree, suffuse a fantastical aura around Doyin, who is notable for her out-of-the-box sense of style. The assemblage’s vision is clear. Mother Earth is showcased in all her charming glory: a backdrop, base material of foliage and jungle likeness, dewy, precious stone earrings and vine-like necklace, and cascading root tendrils pooling into rich soil – all wrapped in an ethereal, ritualistic music of ancestral anchoring and grounded stability.
- Jenni Frank – Floral Dreams and a Royal Swaddling
Jenni’s spin on the theme of the 2025 AMVCA foretells a curtain call wanderlust to an enchanted realm.
Her costume, designed by Rare Princess, is wild nature come alive, paired with an elegant drip of sequins and a royal tulle train.
The flowers spiralling from her hips and hands are an imitation of wildflowers reclaiming and thriving in harsh terrains.
And like a regal figure, she topped her rendition with a crown-shaped updo and olive, net gloves.
- Olivia Chioma Okoro – Neon Glam, Futuristic Radiance
If Mother Earth lived in the future, she would look like this.
Olivia didn’t just wear a gown; she projected a vision board of nature’s next evolution.
Enveloped in fluorescent yellow-green, she glowed with bioluminescent energy, otherworldly and ancient. Her dress was a high-voltage bloom, with crystals dancing like digital pollen across her body and illusory neckline.
The gown unfurled into a fascinating spectacle: backless and tumbling to a flower-like, tulle-rimmed and ruffled train. Arms and shoulders decorated in floral appliqué and light-twinkling tiny stones. Earthy tones contrasted with a sci-fi ambience represent the timeless creative source of the Earth in the now and in ages to come.
- Adeola Chizoba Adeyemi – Butterfly in Motion
While most women attendees at the 2025 AMVCA had been tailoring their looks to fixed, physical attributes of the earth, Adeola towed a distinctive path: a butterfly patterned adornment, breaking from a russet and gold chrysalis.
The gold hues contrasted with the insect’s imagery, striking a fine balance of sophistication and playfulness. Embellished wings draped over her shoulders and sequins refracted light like breezy insects hopping on leaves.
Everything is all about flight and its attendant portraits in this apparel – freedom, transformation, shedding.
The floor-length dress, its plunging neckline, sheer cutouts, and asymmetry only serve to add a commanding streak to the dynamic nature of the feminine archetype.
- Ojumu Christiana – The Golden Phoenix
A goddess.
A phoenix.
A majestic beauty.
Garb demanding to be seen and seen through, to the unconscious tapestries of a powerful myth and layered existence. A screaming, harmonious array of theatrical bits. From the half sunshine to the gem-studded crown, the radiant makeup to the suspended wings, and burnished, exquisite feathers of gilded threads heralding the way to a high slit, these parts of the masterpiece donned by Christiana compelled attention in equal measures.
Just as nature always finds a way to rediscover its purpose, so does the ‘bird rising from its ashes’ symbolism that the beautypreneur has chosen to channel. And who is more resilient, fire-tested and death-daring than a woman?
- Sophie Alakija – Sunset Over Water
Sophie Alakija was a sparkling burst of colours, a chord of nature struck between celestial blazes and turquoise-tinged ripples at the 2025 AMVCA. Paired with a cocktail-shaped purse, she brings to life a tropical vibe—fishes swimming in the deep, orange, peach, and teal tones of a setting dusk where the horizon meets the beach, and train-like tides fanning out.
An exquisite entity, she unravelled in a manner indescribable. Her appearance seemed to mime sun rays splashing into the ocean, creating a mix of heaven- something to be felt and intuitively appreciated rather than merely appraised with the eyes.
The Swan Song
It has been exciting diving into the backgrounds—real or inferred—of these couture on the AMVCA 2025 red carpet. Because every woman is a queen unto herself, with enough room to thrive, this list has been curated to celebrate the creativity and individuality of the women above, not as a ranking. Mother Earth certainly has enough room for its inhabitants to live, from its biodiversity to ecological composition to humans and man-made inventions.
Shows like the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards may come and go and entertain us for a while, but in glimpses of retrospection, we should remember the interconnectivity of life—from clothes to culture, fabrics to folklore, and womanhood to humanity.
