It was one of the finest trend exhibits ever witnessed at this year’s Heineken Design Fashion Africa (DFA) Showcase 2021, which took area at the Eko Conference Centre of Eko Lodge, Lagos, with the topic “Creative Cultures.” Other sponsors of the display were Jakaranda Productions and SpiceTV.
Major designers in the nation and other parts of Africa graced the celebration to showcase distinct innovative African style, toeing the line of this year’s concept ‘Creative Cultures’.
Yomi Casual, Zikora, Jurio Lutti, Niposkin, Skentele by Etti, Studio Trybe, Meklit.me, Lulla Studio and Femi Toys, amid many others, all showcased unique fashion wears both equally for men and women of all ages.
The Topic, ‘Creative Cultures’ responds to the growing will need to mix the African Fashion and inventive industries with world wide brand names and partnerships, such as Heineken among many others.
Manner lovers were being thrilled by the display of type on the runway, audio lovers also have a excellent time with performances from amazing Nigerian artistes are living at the function this kind of as Patoranking, Aramide, Crayon, Tclassic, Ric Hassani, Ycee, Dapo Turbuna, Reekado Banking institutions and others.
Valerie Ike was tasked with the honour of receiving the visitors on the Black Carpet even though the duo of Eso Dike and Idia Aisen have been seen entertaining the friends as the function host.
Talking at the party, just one of the guests, Amarachi Obiakor, mentioned she was wowed by what she witnessed on the working day. The Tai Solarin College of Training scholar reported some of the style designs shown had been prime notch and she appears to be like ahead to invest in a person.
Business enterprise Enhancement Supervisor (Very low and No) of the Heineken Enterprise, Sampson Oloche, who was current at the clearly show stated they believe the DFA is unquestionably a huge residence.
Speaking at the party, Oloche mentioned, “We have been supporting fashion for 11 years,” he claimed. “I am pleased the function was a achievements as designers had been provided the option to showcase their creativity.
“At Heineken, we sense trend is a huge residence in our hands and with the appropriate expense, it can come to be a further money-earning sector in Nigeria and Africa as a total.
Also present at the event was the Brand Help Supervisor – Heineken of the Nigerian Breweries Plc, Aboyowa Ikpobe, who also applauded the organiser for a fantastic position.
DFA in the direction of receiving to the last showpiece arranged a fact display with more than 2000 video clip entries gained from diverse components of Africa with designers displaying off their pieces.
With judges like Godson Ukaegbu, Adebayo Oke-Lawal, Akin Faminu, Oluwatosin Ogundadegbe, Michael Ugwu and Ituen Basi, the entries were reduced to 10 with the lucky 10 camped at a locale in Lagos for 30 days wherever the eventual winner, Zikoranachukwuebuka Ikebuaku of Zikora, emerged.
The winner gained 10 thousand pounds (10,000USD) to generate their built garment and showcase it inside of the Style and design Fashion Africa weekend in October.
This year’s edition of DFA was in collaboration with Jakaranda Productions and SpiceTV.