About Preneurin

A fashion community
built from a real room.

Not an imagined one. Preneurin is being built around the honest, unglamoured conversations fashion founders actually need — live, human, and in the room.

Preneurin exists to ensure that no fashion designer has to navigate the industry alone.

Founded by

Damilola Hadassah Obisesan

Damilola Hadassah Obisesan, founder of Preneurin and Dassah Oikos
FOUNDER LED

Built from one room.
Built for many more.

The atmosphere inside the first Preneurin session in April
01

How It Started

The first session happened in April.
Everything grew from there.

Preneurin began with a question: what if fashion designers in Nigeria had a room where the real business questions were actually on the table — not just fashion-week aesthetics and Instagram reels, but pricing, production, client boundaries, and sustainability?

That question became a live session. The session became proof that these conversations are needed, real, and transformative when the room is right.

Today, Preneurin is being developed around what was learned in that April room. The community is still early. The promise is already clear.

Vision & Aim

The community we are building,
and the promise it keeps.

Vision

To build the most trusted community for fashion designers.

To build the most trusted community for fashion designers, where creatives are empowered through meaningful conversations, shared experiences, collaboration, and continuous growth.

Aim

To connect, support, and empower fashion designers.

To connect, support, and empower fashion designers by creating spaces where they can learn, share experiences, and grow together.

Six Values

The principles that shape
every room Preneurin builds.

Supportive Platform

01

A room where creators feel seen.

Preneurin is designed to be a safe space for designers to share the raw, real, unglamoured parts of running a fashion business.

Mentorship

02

Guidance from someone in the work.

Direct, practical mentorship rooted in lived studio experience — rather than theory from those who no longer build brands every day.

Business Guidance

03

Turning craft into enterprise.

Clear conversations around pricing, production, client relations, and operational structure so creative work becomes sustainable work.

Collaboration

04

Fashion founders together.

A space where ideas cross-pollinate and collaboration happens naturally — between designers, between specialties, and between audiences.

Sustainable Growth

05

Grow thoughtfully, not loudly.

Growth is approached as a long-term craft rather than a short-term race. Preneurin celebrates progress that compounds season after season.

Excellence

06

The standard we bring.

From how a session is run to how designers leave the room — every detail of Preneurin is shaped to raise professional standards for African fashion.

Preneurin is building the room African fashion founders deserve.

One session at a time, one conversation at a time, one designer supported at a time.