Lagos Fashion Week: Promoting craftsmanship at its peak

African craftsmanship takes a thoughtful approach to creating with meaning and purpose, both in nature and nurture. Lagos Fashion Week this year looks at how African fashion has endured through the eyes of designers whose creations narrate a common history of skill.

The programme for this year has been carefully chosen to show dedication to the continent by valuing creativity, expanding our base of knowledge exchange and skill acquisition, and providing our youth with the training and tools they need to create jobs and wealth, with sustainability serving as the primary factor in ensuring longevity and making an impact.

Lagos Fashion Week, which is set to take place from October 25 to October 29, 2023 is one of Africa’s biggest fashion event, launched in 2011 by Omoyemi Akerele and receiving a lot of national and international media coverage.

The Lagos Fashion Week 2023 will host Runway Shows and Presentations featuring new season collections from designers taking place in the #LagosFW Tents and around the vibrant city of Lagos, Fashion Business Series – to facilitate conversations with key players from the Nigerian and Pan African industries and beyond, LagosFW Metaverse – Created to start a dialogue with Nigeria’s digital creatives as a tool for facilitating more conversations on the need for alternative solutions to design, Swap Shop – Created to facilitate new conversations and exchange of ideas surrounding sustainability in African fashion, Thrift Flip Challenge- an activation that aims to inspire our community to embrace sustainability and fuel their creativity.