{"id":198841,"date":"2025-05-26T07:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T05:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lagos-fashion-how-designers-make-global-trends-uniquely-nigerian\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T07:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T05:11:39","slug":"nigeria-lagos-fashion-how-designers-make-global-trends-uniquely-nigerian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lagos-fashion-how-designers-make-global-trends-uniquely-nigerian\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Lagos Fashion &#8211; How Designers Make Global Trends Uniquely Nigerian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">African fashion has flourished in terms of creativity and innovation in recent years, and is attracting <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.58337\/PHDP8559\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">global attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Designers and labels are churning out garments that reflect African cities and how they interact with global trends. Think Nigeria&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ejiroamostafiri.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ejiro Amos Tafiri<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atafo.africa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mai Atafo<\/a>, Ghana&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/christiebrownonline.com\/en-gh?srsltid=AfmBOor8pL02aetdxUVthrQdQBy0QO851bu0xBDL9CB547hCE1xuxrQY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christie Brown<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/larryjayghana.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Jay<\/a>, Kenya&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ikojn.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOopLmikFH3iLzu0SfiY7m9QN1olcbxLme8jEuMOtX-FWahKSzdEL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ikojn<\/a> or South Africa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boyde.co.za\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boyde<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Cities like Lagos, Accra, Marrakesh, Nairobi and Johannesburg have become <a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/F\/bo23353734.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">global fashion capitals<\/a>. They&#8217;re fashion production hubs that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505260004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African fashion has flourished in terms of creativity and innovation in recent years, and is attracting global attention. Designers and labels are churning out garments that reflect African cities and how they interact with global trends. Think Nigeria&#8217;s Ejiro Amos Tafiri and Mai Atafo, Ghana&#8217;s Christie Brown and Larry Jay, Kenya&#8217;s Ikojn or South Africa&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,22403,8980,6212,2477,257,4687,393,482,254,12229,24371],"class_list":["post-198841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-designers","tag-fashion","tag-global","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trends","tag-uniquely"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}