In line with its strategic plan of identifying and supporting Micro, Small and Medium scale Enterprises (MSMEs), Heritage Bank Plc is sponsoring the fifth edition of the African Fashion and Design Week (AFDW) 2016 entitled: “Be inspired.”
The three-day AFDW week opens today at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos . It is a total fashion package that will include a two-day runway show and a fashion of business seminar.
The runway, according to a statement from the bank, will feature eclectic collections from established and emerging African designers such as Weiz Dhurum Franklyn (Nigeria), Sunny Rose (Nigeria), Nallem Clothing (Ghana), Gavin Rajah (South Africa), Kahindo (Congo/USA), Mustafa Hassanali (Tanzania) and many more.
The bank’s Divisional Head, Corporate Communications, Olusola Longe-Okenimkpe, said in a statement that the business of fashion seminar will provide a platform for young aspiring fashion designers and allied interests like hair and make-up artists, stylists and wardrobe managers, casting managers fashion photographers, set designers, backstage managers, entertainment managers among others to learn the basic foundation of building a fashion brand and make a fulfilling career out of it.
According to Longe-Okenimkpe, the seminar which comes up at 2pm today will feature such emerging and celebrated Africa as designers including Jamil Walji from Kenya Africaine Nana from Ghana , make-up artist Marco of New York Fashion Week and London Fashion Week
She said: “Fashion, being part of our African heritage, it is only reasonable that we support platforms that will further our philosophy of helping young people and small enterprises to create, preserve and transfer wealth in order to engender a viable and sustainable economy.”