Ronke Ademiluyi, Founder of AFWL & AFWN
Abiola Okoya Africa Fashion Week’s Good Will Ambassador and Partner
On Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th May,
2014, the city of Lagos will witness the biggest fashion festival yet to occur
within the Nigerian clime. Spread into two days and happening in two separate
venues, Africa Fashion Week Nigeria will indeed be an African fashion
celebration, coming in continental dimensions and depths of professional
panache and finesse, fit only for a world class fashion event.
Africa Fashion week Nigeria will feature over 50, fashion
designers, showcasing in two days of absolute fashion glitz and glamour.
Saturday 17th May will break the event with the best of Nigeria’s up and coming designers who have been
sponsored to showcase.
The event is the primary objective of Africa Fashion Week
Nigeria, which is to create a platform that will give much needed visibility and
exposure to the best of emerging creative talents in the Nigerian fashion
industry. This is to enable them to be discovered and to network with high net
worth individuals in order to form clientele quality and develop strong revenue
base that will convert their fashion creativity into economic sustainability.
The event will feature catwalk shows, exhibitions, celebrity
runways, stunning models, A-list contemporary music, combining runway with
classy entertainment in a night of fashion blitz such as has never been
witnessed in Lagos before. There will be strong African background, enhanced by
poetic renditions by seasoned orators of the Nigerian theatre. It will be a
night best witnessed than narrated.
Sunday 18th May event will be at Eko Hotels, Adetokunbo
Ademola Street, Victoria Island Lagos. The Sunday event will be the mother of
all fashion events, featuring the cream of African and Nigerian fashion brands
from both home and in the Diaspora, such as JOHN KAVEKE from Kenya, LOPEZ from
Angola, POLIKEM from Ghana, QUEENE From New York USA and our Darling Nigerian
Fashion A-Listers, such as EJIRO AMOS TAFIRI, ZIZI CARDOW, and HOUSE OF MARIE,
just to mention a few
The high point of the event
will be a grand out coming by Hajia Abba Folawiyo, the doyenne of Nigerian fashion,
in an inspiring show, for the current and future generations.
Among our grand patrons, who
also form our guest list, include the best that Nigerian society has to offer
in the personalities of Chief Molade Okoya Thomas, Sen.
Daisy Danjuma, Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa and Chief Oprah Benson among others.
