Lagos Partners Leading Brands To Celebrate Africa’s Fashion Excellence

The African Fashion Designers Award (AFDA) has announced its 8th edition, themed “Fashion Bespoke Experience,” acceptable to instrumentality spot connected November 16, 2025, astatine The Podium, Lekki, Lagos.

This premier manner showcase volition bring unneurotic immoderate of Africa’s astir talented designers, models, and manufacture leaders successful a vibrant solemnisation of the continent’s affluent taste practice and originative innovation.

Building connected 7 palmy years of elevating African manner connected the planetary stage, AFDA 2025 promises to beryllium its astir spectacular variation yet. This year’s lawsuit volition spotlight bespoke designs that stress the artistry of African tailoring and customization, offering an immersive acquisition that blends contented with modernity.

The lawsuit is endorsed by the Lagos State Government Ministry of Tourism, Arts, and Culture—highlighting its value to Nigeria’s originative economy. Leading firm sponsors specified arsenic Johnnie Walker, Darling Hair Nigeria, Da’ Circles, MySogi Ads, and Loom Rooms are partnering with AFDA, underscoring the increasing assurance successful the commercialized imaginable of African fashion.

Attendees tin look guardant to a affluent programme that includes exclusive decorator showcases featuring Africa’s apical manner talents, unrecorded exemplary presentations of cutting-edge designs, a prestigious awards ceremonial honoring excellence successful manner plan and modeling, arsenic good arsenic high-level networking opportunities with manner executives, fiscal institutions, and authorities stakeholders. The lawsuit volition besides diagnostic unrecorded taste amusement and a dynamic manner accumulation highlighting existent trends and accepted craftsmanship.

More than conscionable an awards ceremony, AFDA functions arsenic a broad concern platform. It is designed to elevate emerging manner endowment crossed Africa, foster connections with planetary buyers and investors, facilitate partnerships with fiscal institutions, and fortify collaboration betwixt manner entrepreneurs and authorities enactment programs. Through these efforts, AFDA continues to beforehand African manner connected the planetary stage.

The excitement surrounding this year’s variation is palpable. On September 20, 2025, AFDA held its exemplary casting astatine The Fit Fitness Studio successful Lekki, drafting implicit 500 aspiring models, the largest turnout successful the award’s history.

Nominees for this year’s awards volition beryllium officially announced connected Monday, September 29, 2025, spotlighting the astir promising designers and innovators shaping the aboriginal of African fashion.

“We are thrilled to contiguous the Fashion Bespoke Experience astatine The Podium, Lekki,” said King Dasilva Olasunkanmi, AFDA Organizer. “This taxable celebrates the exceptional artistry of African tailoring and customization. AFDA 2025 volition showcase not conscionable beauteous clothing, but the stories, traditions, and innovations that marque African manner a planetary force.”

Now successful its 8th year, the African Fashion Designers Award stands arsenic Africa’s starring manner designation platform. It has consistently championed the continent’s designers, offering captious exposure, concern opportunities, and manufacture connections that person helped motorboat galore palmy manner careers crossed Africa.