The Trends That Defined Lagos Fashion Week SS27
Lagos Fashion Week returned for its 16th edition from 28 October to 1 November under the theme “Crafted”, continuing a conversation about heritage and innovation while exploring the knowledge, skill and creative ideas shaping African fashion. The five-day schedule was packed with more than 60 designers, but only a few met the threshold for innovation […]
A Photo Diary of Lagos Fashion Week
For the first time in all my years of attending Lagos Fashion Week, I decided to bring a camera along. Each year, I find myself wondering whether it will follow the same theatrics as the last. There is the Lagos heat, the rush between shows, the politics of who gets to sit in the front […]
Dede Arisekola Is Building a World of Her Own
Most designers at the start of their careers arrive with something to say. Dede Arisekola is charting a less familiar course, guided by a question: “What if the things we inherit were only the beginning of what we could become?” The Irish-born Nigerian designer is interested in the societal expectations woven into the clothes we […]
Building Around Broken Systems
When Godwin Okoruwa, founder and creative director of GDWN, started his gender-fluid label amidst the pandemic in 2020, he had it firmly at the back of his mind that he had to build purely from his instinct. There was no elaborate market analysis or established blueprint for how the brand would grow. His already decade-long […]
How Lagos Moves
There are two words I’ve long used to describe Lagos: beautiful chaos. They may read like an oxymoron, but they are the closest thing the city has to a definition. To understand Lagos, you must first allow that contradiction to settle in your mind. Only then does the city begin to reveal itself, not as […]
Inside Central Saint Martins’ Makers Camp: West African Makers in Focus
For two weeks, the conservatory room of Mason & Fifth became an experimental studio of collective making.
The Trends Defining African Fashion in 2026
If 2025 marked a year of expansion for African fashion—designers embracing quiet luxury, soft
African Ritual Aesthetics in the Age of Luxury Fashion
Across Lagos, Dakar, and London, African designers are increasingly turning to the sacred. From Adama Paris’ waridjé mask bags to Bubu Ogisi’s
20 Years of Lisa Folawiyo
From embellished Ankara to global recognition, Lisa Folawiyo reflects
Buy Less, Love More: Onata Haus Launches an African-Led Conscious Revolution in Lagos
Buy Less, Love More: Onata Haus Launches an African-Led Conscious Revolution in Lagos Onata Haus Campaign Photographed by Stephen Tayo Lagos, Nigeria — The runway begins where the sand ends. On a private beach in Ilashe, far from the city’s honking chaos, Onata Haus unveiled its vision Monday night: 30 looks drifting past sculptures forged […]