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Former BBNaija housemate, Queen Mercy Atang has disclosed that she wore the viral bread dress to the 12th Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA) as a subtle promotion for her business with her stylist’s encouragement.
Queen, as the reality star is popularly known, went viral on social media after wearing the dress made with 500 loaves of bread to the AMVCA red carpet event.
She told the BBC that she insisted on wearing the dress to the red carpet even though it had closed because she did not want people to think the photos were AI-generated.
She explained, “I did not plan on going for this year’s AMVCA before. I had put down some things I wanted to achieve for my business. AMVCA was not in my dictionary this year.
“My designer later urged me to go, while I told her to do something simple for me to wear. But she told me I cannot dress simply for the event.
“I wanted to go to the event physically even after the red carpet had closed. I did not want to post the picture online alone, so people would not say it was AI-generated.”
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Queen thanked her designer, Tianah Empire, for coming up with the unique design.
She said, “First of all, I was not the one who made the dress. Tianah Empire, the king of fashion, made it. It is just for me to get the clothes ready to put on.
“She asked me first to come and fit myself with the dress to look for places that need adjustments. It took weeks to get the dress ready.
“But for me, the weight of the dress almost broke my waist. If you check my back, I have a serious wound there. Because that bread was very heavy. I literally cried while wearing that dress. I first said I needed to catch my breath.
“The first few seconds after wearing the dress, I had to take it off and cried a lot. Then later, I told them I was ready to wear it again.”
