Lagos fashion and design week to hold in October

This year’s edition of the Guaranty Trust Bank Lagos Fashion and Design Week (GTBank LFDW) will run from October 29 to November 1, 2014.

Entering into its fourth year, the GTBank LFDW has been at the helm of the Nigerian fashion industry by ensuring that African designers have a platform to showcase their collections annually and seek out various opportunities for designers both within Nigeria and beyond. This year, the GTBank LFDW will include other designers from across Africa.

“This year, we will begin to present designers from a selection across Africa as part of our vision to promote inter connectivity within the African fashion industry, a vital tool for the promotion of intra-African trade,” Omoyemi Akerele, creative director of GTBank LFDW, said.

“The African continent creates a natural market for the fashion industry and GTBank LFDW wants to ensure that we tap into this market.”

As part of changes to the LFDW series this year, the LFDW Young Designer of the Year Competition, which ran for three years, will now be replaced by the LFDW Fashion Focus, to be held in partnership with Frallain Inc and Istituto Marangoni.

Opportunities for selected participants include LFDW workshops focused on building retail-ready brands for the business of fashion, presentation at Guaranty Trust Bank Lagos Fashion and Design Week, six-months internship with Louis Vuitton Moet Henessy (LVMH’s) EDUN facilitated by Frallain Inc, scholarship opportunity with Istituto Marangoni, and LFDW Fashion Focus retail pop ups across Nigeria.

Further information on entry rules and procedures are available on www.lagosfashionanddesignweek.com.