Lagos Fashion Week is back from October 29 to November 2, 2025, and this year marks a major milestone: its 15th anniversary. With the theme "In Full Bloom," the event is set to celebrate the growth, ...

Lagos is a feeling. It’s an ethos that brings you back to life with it’s chaos and color. Returning to Lagos for Fashion Week reminded me of the importance of the global south’s role in the ...

When it comes to Fashion Week, cities like Paris, New York and Milan are probably the first places that come to mind. But there’s another major city that is establishing itself as a center of style – ...

Not everyone dreams in fabrics and silhouettes. But Lagos Fashion Week isn’t just for fashion insiders. It’s for anyone who appreciates creativity, culture, and the thrill of seeing Nigerians do ...

Models strutted down the runway, their beaded and sequined dresses evoking the traditional facial scarring still done in some parts of Nigeria. Others donned outfits paying homage to adire, a ...

Lagos Fashion Week becomes a 2025 Earthshot Prize finalist for “Build a Waste-Free World,” spotlighting Africa’s sustainable fashion leadership. Lagos Fashion Week has been named as one of the 2025 ...

Mandel is a senior editor at TIME. Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Photo: Shane Anthony Sinclair—BFC/Getty Images) This year marks the 15th Lagos Fashion Week, and since Omoyemi Akerele launched it ...

Four days ahead of her show at Lagos Fashion Week, the sewing machines at Abasiekeme Ukanireh's workshop were still buzzing. Ukanireh, the founder of the popular Nigerian brand Eki Kere, met with ...

Lagos is considered the largest fashion week on the African continent Lagos Fashion Week, now in its 15th year, runs through Sunday in Nigeria's cultural and economic capital Kanyinsola Onalaja's show ...

Lagos Fashion Week also hosts what it calls "Swapshop" events, which allow people to exchange clothes they no longer wear for new ones. "We all have clothes at home that we no longer wear," said ...