Do you love fashion? then this is for you!

Lagos Fashion Week (LagosFW) is a fashion platform that pushes the Nigerian and ultimately African fashion industries by bringing together buyers, consumers, and the media for a four-day event in Lagos, Nigeria’s fashion hub, to view current designer collections. Lagos, the city that hosts LagosFW, is an attraction in and of itself. A urban island of 17.5 to 20 million people, with an unusual mix of people and culture, is quickly becoming Africa’s melting pot for creative skills and industry.

Participants, designers, and visitors can expect a diverse and interactive platform that will increase their exposure within and outside their professional circle, as well as open doors to new business prospects. October 23rd to 27th, 2024 will be Africa’s 14th edition of its most prestigious fashion week running. As usual, Lagos FW would gather media, consumers, and buyers from all around the world together in Lagos, Nigeria’s fashion hub. These are some of the designers that are taking part.

Ugo Monye

Having launched his own brand over ten years, Nigerian menswear designer Ugo Monye has been in business. Originally a unisex business with more of an emphasis on female consumers, Ugo Monye decided over time to concentrate on the menswear pieces since he could be creative, original, and unique with men’s fashion.

Ugo Monye was awarded the Vanguard Allure Women and Fashion Awards 2017 as Wedding Designer of the Year 2017. Launched in 2009, the brand mostly targets menswear.

Aajiya

AAJIYA is a contemporary lifestyle brand that changes the narrative of African Fashion and empowers the multidimensional woman who embraces their full identity and freedom.

With every piece they produce, they challenge and subvert preconceptions about African fashion, subsequently working around a non-cliche concept of what African fashion is. With varied kinds of African fabrics, complex colour patterns, and textures, AAJIYA aims to rewrite the story. They appreciate handwork and individually made fabrics, so producing unique historical artefacts still wearable today. In 2019, the brand made its debut in the womenswear category.

Orange Culture

From he was ten years old, Adebayo Oke-Lawal has been designing. Starting Orange Culture in 2011, he worked with various Nigerian designers to realise his original concept of fashion. Launching the label and making his formal runway debut at Lagos Fashion & Design Week 2011, he has been tirelessly attempting to present Orange Culture to the globe.

Originally started in 2011, Orange Culture is a movement spanning international designs with an African touch rather than just a high-end clothes brand. It appeals to a creative class of guys, translating into a heady mix of Nigerian-inspired printed textiles, colour, and modern urban street clothing.

In 2018, celebrities such Lupita Nyongo, Dua Lipa, and Chimamanda Adichie donned the brand, hence boosting its media profile and making it the first African company to get a Woolmark Prize nomination. Plans call for the brand to be carried in Lagos, Paris, London, New York, Hollywood, and Kenya among many more outlets. They focuses on both male and female wears.

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ATAFO

ATAFO, formerly known as Mai Atafo, is a multidisciplinary fashion brand that creates menswear, womenswear, and bridal collections. With Mai Atafo as Chief Creative Officer, ATAFO has become one of Africa’s foremost fashion labels, consistently delivering high-quality, luxury pieces with an emphasis on unrivalled craftsmanship and tailoring.

ATAFO creates exquisite bespoke tailored garments, unique, elegant wedding gowns, and recently uber-fashionable ready-to-wear pieces. The label is renowned for its precise cuts and flawless fit, meticulously crafting each piece with love and expertise. They launched their brand in 2011, and they specialize in menswear, womenswear, shoes and bridal.

Zashadu

Specialising in handcrafted small-batch manufacturing, Zashadu is a Lagos-based firm specialising in sustainable luxury leather products. They cultivated unusual skins and rough-cut prior stones placed in brass working with local sustainable leather providers.

 

Every item in their Lagos-based studio is created by a team of local artists applying age-old skills handed down through generations. Delivering high-quality items in a way that guarantees the growth of the artisan community Zashadu supports, Zashadu investigates the conflict between calm elegance and unashamed splendour. Started in 2010 and focuses on accessories.

Cute-Saint

Cute-Saint is an African sustainable genderless company that attempts to bridge the “luxury and affordability” gap by presenting frequently ignored African stories and narratives via colours, textures, forms, and lines. It debuted in 2020 and is under the Menswear and Accessories category.

Cute-Saint takes pride in crafting authentic, edgy designs using locally produced organic textiles and batiks manufactured by skilled artisans. We design each Cute-Saint product with the environment in mind, thinking that we all have a role to play in making the world a better place to live. Cute-Saint, as an ethical brand, considers the welfare of craftsmen and adheres to the concept of “fair labour,” as well as using the “pre-order” model for product sales to decrease the amount of waste generated.

 

AAKS

Akosua Afriyie-Kumi started A A K S to bring her preferred Ghanaian women’s weaving techniques to the globe, increase awareness of ethical manufacturing methods, and support sustainable fashion consumption.

Made in Ghana, A A K S designs handbags in ways that showcase the brilliant, energetic colours of Africa while nevertheless seeking to preserve the provenance of weaving as an art form. The essence of A A K S design philosophy is enshrined in these three main pillars: designs that embody a critical attention to craftsmanship, ethical and sustainable values in the production cycle, and a high-quality finished product that will never be mass produced.

Each collection silhouette is unique and tells a different story through detail, colour, and shape. Akosua is involved in every stage of the design and production process to ensure that the end result embodies the spirit and soul worthy of the A A K S stamp. Launched in 2014, AAKS specialises in accessories.

Kelechi Odu

Kelechi Odu is an architect, fashion designer, and film producer. His clothing company, Kelechi Odu Collection, focused mostly on males. He develops and manufactures his menswear in Nigeria, obtaining the majority of the fabric locally from vintage stock, resulting in limited-edition items and more environmentally conscious techniques. He is passionate on reimagining gender and cultural norms through his designs.

Abigail Ajobi

Abigail Ajobi is a high-end, eco-friendly streetwear brand that works to raise awareness about social issues and support community development. The prints on their clothes make each one special, just like the people who wear them.

The brand’s signature “convertible clothing” feature means that a lot of the clothes can be worn in different ways. This gives customers more style options and makes them more likely to love their clothes for longer.

 

For see  more information and all the lists of designers that will be participation during the course of the event check here