Lagos Fashion Week 2025 celebrated 15 years in style, spotlighting a new generation of designers redefining African fashion from the ground up.
Lagos Fashion Week 2025 marks 15 years of the platform shaping African fashion. The 2025 theme, In Full Bloom, captured more than seasonal change. It reflected a new generation of designers rooted in craft, identity, and sustainability.
Straight from the catwalk in Lagos, here’s our round up of the seven designer brand names shaping the future of African fashion, each one bringing something distinct to the conversation. Sit up and take note.
Iamisigo
Led by Bubu Ogisi, Iamisigo’s collection moved between the spiritual and the physical. Layers of raffia and recycled fibres created garments that looked alive.
Ogisi’s work continues to bridge ancestral craft and modern consciousness, turning the runway into a place of memory rather than spectacle.
Lagos Space Programme
Adeju Thompson’s collection spoke quietly but clearly. The pieces blurred lines between masculine and feminine form, reflecting the designer’s interest in Yoruba philosophies and non-binary expression.
Thompson’s approach to tailoring remains a masterclass in restraint and reflection, a reminder that you can create something that is minimalist and African at the same time.
Éki Kéré
Abasiekeme Ukanireh, founder of Éki Kéré, turned textile waste into art. Her work explored texture, layering, and transformation.
Part of the Green Access initiative, she continues to show that sustainability in African fashion is also about protecting our heritage, not just about the materials we select.
Katush
Kenyan designer Katungulu Mwendwa brought ease to the runway with hand-dyed fabrics and relaxed silhouettes.
Her collection captured the rhythm of travel and movement, a fitting reflection of Africa’s creative diaspora. Katush designs for people who live between places but still carry home with them.
Orange Culture
Adebayo Oke-Lawal’s Orange Culture has always been about vulnerability and expression.
This season felt intimate, with metallics and soft lace highlighting emotional honesty. Oke-Lawal continues to question what masculinity means in contemporary African fashion — and the answers keep evolving.
TJWHO
Temitayo Johnson’s label, TJWHO, brought sharp tailoring and clean lines to LFW 2025.
His collection balanced structure and ease, proving that simplicity doesn’t mean silence. Johnson’s work sits at the intersection of modern architecture and emotional design.
Emmy Kasbit
Emmanuel Okoro revisited traditional aso-oke fabrics with a fresh eye.
His structured silhouettes felt proud and familiar, grounded in Nigerian heritage but aimed at a global audience. Okoro’s ability to blend local craft with luxury remains one of the event’s highlights.
A Future in Bloom
The future of African fashion has arrived. It’s here, rooted in the continent’s creativity, hands, histories, and imagination. Brining fresh perspectives and ideas and in the process redefining the art of style.
Lagos Fashion Week 2025 showed the world what the next generation of fashion design looks like. These designers aren’t looking to the west or the mainstream fashion houses for inspiration, instead they’re building new legacies based on heritage and fresh creative ideas, rooted in Africa.
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