HEINEKEN LAGOS FASHION WEEK 2018
LADE IBIKUNLE AT LAGOS FASHION WEEK
Heineken Lagos Fashion Week 2018 | My Honest Opinion!
20:31Lade Ibikunle
So I applied for press tag, got invited to the press cocktail party which was mostly Dugbe market (my Ibadan people will understand) then I got an email to come get my press tag, quite easy.
So I'm going to be talking about the just concluded Lagos fashion week from four points which are; location, runway, time, and general thoughts. Let's get into this, shall we?
LOCATION
To be honest I quite preferred last year's location which was Eko Atlantic. But in all fairness, this is a new space that has just been acquired by Lagos fashion week. And so, I will cut them some slack on this. I look forward to the location becoming better as the year goes by. I also think the space left for street style pictures was too small. What they can probably do is to move the car park outside so we can have more room for street style slay. And if they do decide to retain the carpark inside, street style should be moved to the street that leads into the tents as it's done for Newyork, London, Berlin, etc.
TIME
Lagos fashion week has to do better time!!! How can a show slated to start at 4 eventually start at 9 pm??? That's 5 hours wasted time. Enough of African or Nigerian time! It's dead and gone!!!
RUNWAY
The black runway set wasn't bad at all. But I prefer white. You know how I feel about my whites, lol. The designers also did a pretty decent job. But boy oh boy half of the show was painful to watch because I had to watch models struggle with bad shoes!!! They were literally all walking like they had boil in their bumbum. I sincerely don't know if they got the wrong shoe sizes or the wrong way was as bad for the shoes but somewhere in between all of that was a massive failure!
General Thoughts
My best designers that showcased were Style Temple, Rich Mnisi, Sisiano, DZYN, House of Kaya, Anyango Mpinga, and Moofa. LFW also needs to stop this bad behaviour of reserving front seats for ghosts! I say ghosts because nobody occupies them seats. They reserve the first 3 or 4 rows for 'celebrities' that never show up. It's absolutely insane having to seat all the way back (even with a press tag/VIP ticket) and watch the front seats practically empty. This has to stop!!!
I am very passionate about this because I want to actually see Lagos Fashion Week flourish. I want it to meet international standards. It's ours and we need to by all means make it work.
All in all, I managed to have a good time. I met cool people, I networked with amazing people and for that, I give LFW kudos.
Did you attend fashion week this year? share your thoughts below
LOCATION
To be honest I quite preferred last year's location which was Eko Atlantic. But in all fairness, this is a new space that has just been acquired by Lagos fashion week. And so, I will cut them some slack on this. I look forward to the location becoming better as the year goes by. I also think the space left for street style pictures was too small. What they can probably do is to move the car park outside so we can have more room for street style slay. And if they do decide to retain the carpark inside, street style should be moved to the street that leads into the tents as it's done for Newyork, London, Berlin, etc.
Lagos fashion week has to do better time!!! How can a show slated to start at 4 eventually start at 9 pm??? That's 5 hours wasted time. Enough of African or Nigerian time! It's dead and gone!!!
RUNWAY
The black runway set wasn't bad at all. But I prefer white. You know how I feel about my whites, lol. The designers also did a pretty decent job. But boy oh boy half of the show was painful to watch because I had to watch models struggle with bad shoes!!! They were literally all walking like they had boil in their bumbum. I sincerely don't know if they got the wrong shoe sizes or the wrong way was as bad for the shoes but somewhere in between all of that was a massive failure!
General Thoughts
My best designers that showcased were Style Temple, Rich Mnisi, Sisiano, DZYN, House of Kaya, Anyango Mpinga, and Moofa. LFW also needs to stop this bad behaviour of reserving front seats for ghosts! I say ghosts because nobody occupies them seats. They reserve the first 3 or 4 rows for 'celebrities' that never show up. It's absolutely insane having to seat all the way back (even with a press tag/VIP ticket) and watch the front seats practically empty. This has to stop!!!
I am very passionate about this because I want to actually see Lagos Fashion Week flourish. I want it to meet international standards. It's ours and we need to by all means make it work.
Till next time😘
*Pictures all mine except 4, 5, & which were taken by Ifeoma of Drapedinbasics.com
8 comments
Fashion week was fun for me as always but yes I agree to allot of the points raised especially the shoes, and the lateness. It wasn't this bad last year but oh well. We made the best and networked and it's always a good feeling .
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Thank you Mary. The networking part is always worth looking forward. Will sure visit your blog
DeleteThis was a good read Lade, loved how straight forward you were. Hopefully they work on these things and get better at it. While I didn't attend as per Abuja things, I wasn't a big fan of the location either.
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Thank you for reading Sarah. I hope this gets better cos 6 years is not beans
DeleteSee ehn this post spoke the truth! Their timing is awful, also the fact that they dont fully accommodate bloggers is quite disappointing. I didn't attend this year but going forward I wouldn't miss it!
ReplyDeleteVery disaapointing. To think this is their 6th year. We deserve better!!!
ReplyDeleteIs there a way to leave the organizers feed back?
ReplyDeleteHi Opeyemi. I am hoping they read this post. I mean, from all the talks going on on social media about the event, they should have taken their learnings
DeleteYour comment means a lot, kindly leave them and be sure I'll attend to everyone of them