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Lagos Fashion Week: A four day celebration of African Fashion in October!

While September is traditionally seen as ‘fashion month’, it is clear that global fashion weeks outside of New York, London, Milan and Paris are gaining recognition as melting pots of fresh perspectives and exciting new talent. Lagos Fashion Week is one of the leading fashion weeks on the African continent, spurred on by the bustling city of Lagos and its status as a cultural hotspot. LagosFW leads the way with initiatives that support, strengthens and develop the fashion industry. Beyond the runway, the annual event provides a physical platform that’s gradually repositioning fashion as a useful tool for commerce and creativity in Nigeria. With young designers and a vast array of creatives who converge on the city, it’s all eyes on the runway and designer showrooms. The formats are ever expanding, feeding into the need for a diversified approach to presentations of new collections. It is well known that younger design houses need the exposure outside of the dizzying runway schedule and this flexibility has seen many avant-garde expressions of brand identity, ensuring the activations are spread round the city of Lagos.

Happening over four days, the schedule includes the top designers on the continent and African diaspora. The varying formats and activations include:

  • Runway Shows and Presentations featuring new season collections from designers
  • Fashion Focus Africa – talent discovery initiative that creates access to Fashion Focus Fund, knowledge transfer, information exchange, networking opportunities, and access to market;
  • Fashion Focus Africa – talent discovery initiative that creates access to Fashion Focus Fund, knowledge transfer, information exchange, networking opportunities, and access to market;
  • Fashion Business Series to facilitate conversations with key players from the Nigerian and Pan African industries and beyond, as a useful tool for exchanging ideas, networking, and developing the fashion industry.
  • Green Access – Talent discovery with a vision to encourage designers to create social, economic, and environmentally sustainable fashion brands (sourced from Lagos Fashion Week website).

For more information, and to see the full schedule please visit Lagos Fashion Week’s official page here.

See you on the front row!

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