Atunnise Clothiers: LFDW 2016- How it went down plus pictures

Day 1 Day1 Even though events at the Lagos Fashion week started at Federal Palace Hotel the place to be on this day was FATE Foundation. Reason?! The meet up was specially organized by the FATE Foundation in partnership with Dabira and the African Development Bank with the special guest as Shaldon Kopman- CEO of NakedApe (A South African Fashion company).
This program presented an opportunity to gain insight into the leading fashion entrepreneur's journey from an industry, skill and entrepreneurship perspective. Did i mention it was a really cosy event? That's another reason why it was a place to be.

With Emanuela Gregorio of ADB

With the CEO of NakedApe- Shaldon Kopman.

With the ED of Fate Foundation- Adenike Adeyemi who organized this fashion meetup.

With Charlotte Dabira, A Senior Executive of African Development Bank

Day 2 was the Fashion Business Series with panel discussions all through. It really had a lot of insight for designers with focus on financing via angel investors. Representatives of Sterling Bank, Jumia, African Development Bank, and a list of others identified various avenues for financing and how to make funds or other forms of assistance easily available for entrepreneurs in the fashion industry.

I look so fly! Representing Atunnise Clothiers as always.

The Ministerial Panel

Day 3 was about Fashion and its economics aptly called "Fashionomics". The aim is to develop and online interactive market place for African MSMEs in the textile and fashion industry in Africa. They have used Ethiopia and Cote D’Ivoire as case study. we had Government dignitaries of Ministries, NEPC and manufacturers associations as well as design houses in attendance.

Emanuela Gregrio of African Development Bank anchored the snapshot of roles played by African countries in production of raw material and processing across the value chain to export positions in the International market. One clear indication is how Ethiopia, Cote D’Ivore and South Africa to mention a few have gone far and are reaping the rewards of looking inwards to produce merchandise and fashion resources including creating the institutions that will churn a good breed of human resources which the world needs.

Nigeria, on the other hand is still in its consuming state and for a large economy and population which we are, this is highly discouraging for a country that has until recently only depended on oil which is fast losing its economic value.

It was an awesome week. Kudos to Mrs Akerele and her team at LSDW and Style House!