Artist Statement

Nneka Alaka is a New York-based aspiring entertainment/fashion journalist. Her true passion is in the ever-changing world of fashion. She eats, breaths and thinks about fashion everyday and enjoys delving into the minds and closets of the fashion industry's most influential designers and today's most relevant fashion icons. She is not exactly a fashion designer herself, but she loves to impress herself through her clothes, enjoys keeping up with the latest trends, but always seems to incorporate a unique essence of herself in her daily style. She hopes to one day have first-hand experiences at Fashion Weeks from New York to Paris and attend the most exclusively glamorous night, which celebrates fashion in exquisitely unique and elegant ways, The Met Ball.  

She is also an avid film watcher in all aspects of the art form. She does not have any preferred genre when watching films and embraces new, innovative works of film. She admires the power filmmakers have in using their films to provide viewers with fiction works, a way to escape the, at times, harsh realities of life or non-fiction films and documentaries, a way to convey intense emotions and spot-light important issues in our world. She hopes to, like filmmakers, find creative ways to show the importance of expressing oneself through clothing, whether it is designing it or wearing it. She is interested in the journey of fashion designers and would like to direct a "behind the scenes" type of documentary on the story's of clothing designers from high-fashion's most prominent designers to unknown, underground designers who have yet to be discovered.  

Nneka is currently a full-time Entertainment Journalism student at Hunter College and seeks to intern, in the spring, at a New York publication or magazine who's main focus is fashion.