Walé Oyéjidé, Esq. is a designer, writer, speaker, filmmaker, musician and lawyer that combats bias with creative storytelling. As the founder of the brand Ikiré Jones, he employs fashion design as a vehicle to celebrate the perspectives of marginalized populations.

He is a National Geographic Explorer, an Open Society Foundations Fellow, and a TED Fellow.

Among other things, Mr. Oyéjidé is a Director/Designer with a finely honed aesthetic and a history of producing campaigns that marry vivid imagery with compelling storytelling. His work threads the needle between the cultural and the contemporary, and seeks to reflect the authentic experiences of persons that are commonly overlooked in commercial media. At the core of his work is the notion that elegance is not owned by any particular culture, or by any corner of the world.

His design work was famously featured in the blockbuster "Black Panther" and in the sequel to the Eddie Murphy classic "Coming 2 America". He designs were also part of the "Making Africa" contemporary design exhibit, which was at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany and at the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain. He was featured in the "Creative Africa" exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His work has also exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, among other group exhibitions. He has been invited to lecture about his work in Brazil, Ecuador, France, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates. His designs for Ikiré Jones also appeared as part of the "Generation Africa" fashion show at Pitti Uomo 89 in Florence, Italy.

Walé Oyéjidé is an acclaimed recording artist. And for what it's worth, Esquire Magazine noted him as one of the best dressed men in the United States of America.