Nigeria: Lagos Fashion Week Looks Beyond The Catwalk To Fashion’s Future

A new coalition is challenging African fashion to turn its long traditions of repair, reuse and community production into a modern industrial strategy that keeps more jobs, knowledge and economic value on the continent.

The most important collection at this year’s Lagos Fashion Week will not be on the runway. Organisers will use Africa’s largest and most influential fashion event to launch a continent-wide blueprint to encourage the industry to embrace regenerative fashion.

Lagos Fashion Week is a…