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Photo: Kola Oshalusi/Insigna This Ghanaian Fashion Designer Turns Garbage Into Your Favourite Footwear
Each week, approximately 15 million used garments move through Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana. As the world's largest importer of secondhand clothing, the market employs 30,000 traders who sort, ...
24 Nigerian-Owned Luxury Handbag Brands You Didn’t Know
When it comes to luxury handbags, Nigerian-owned brands are making a name for themselves in the fashion industry. Nigerians are renowned for their remarkable creativity in textile crafting, fashion ...
Lagos Fashion Week 2026 Returns This October. Here’s Everything to Expect
October carries a different kind of excitement in the African fashion industry. Long before the first model steps onto the runway, designers are putting finishing touches on collections, editors ...
Lagos Fashion Week Presents Africa’s First Manifesto for a Regenerative Fashion Industry
Fresh off its recognition as a 2025 Earthshot Prize winner, Lagos Fashion Week has unveiled the African Fashion Coalition Manifesto, The Blueprint for a Regenerative Fashion Future, in partnership ...
Oleku is the Latest Fashion Obsession in Nigeria
In Nigerian fashion, few traditional attires have experienced a revival as remarkable as that of the iconic iro and buba, particularly its glamorous “Oleku” variation. Once seen as old-fashioned by ...
Who Is Tamunosoye Karibi-George? Meet Nigeria’s Miss World 2026
Nigeria has a new beauty queen. Her name is Tamunosoye Karibi-George, and she is not the kind of woman who waits for a crown to start changing lives. On Saturday night, at the Balmoral Hall of the ...
How The Fashioned Museum Created Africa’s Largest Fashion Archive
What happens when you take the bold vision of documenting fashion, identity, and textile stories across all 54 African countries and bring it to life in a physical space? You get IAF54 by The ...
Lisa Folawiyo is Obsessed With Bows
In recent years, bows have steadily gained prominence as a favored fashion embellishment. By 2023 and 2024, the trend became widespread, with enthusiasts incorporating bows into hairstyles, dresses, ...
7 Nigerian-Owned Fashion Brands to Shop For Summer
Summer dressing always sounds simple in theory until the heat actually arrives. Heavy fabrics feel impossible, dark colours lose appeal, and the entire wardrobe starts demanding lighter textures, ...
Folake Coker Is Taking Nigerian Fashion to Greater Heights
In an industry where trends change rapidly, maintaining relevance for twenty-five years is a significant achievement. Folake Coker, creative director and founder of Tiffany Amber, a fashion and ...
5 Igbo Traditional Fabrics and the Deeper Meanings
To the untrained eye, a piece of Akwete cloth might look like a beautifully patterned textile. To the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria, however, that same cloth is a novel, a historical ...
Meet AABOUX, The Nigerian Leather Handbag Brand Worth Your Penny
When a new African luxury fashion brand launches, particularly one offering sculptural leather bags priced up to $900, our initial response at Fashion Police Nigeria is cautious, not admiring. We ...
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