Event: The Nigerian Student Fashion and Design Week

All the student fashionistas in the house say Yay, it’s event time!!

Here’s an event that will surely get you excited. The Nigerian Student Fashion and Design Week is here again. And this fourth edition will be bigger and better than ever before.

This is the season for Fashion Events and students are not left out. The Nigerian Students Fashion & Design Week is an arm of the AFWN designed especially for students.

Event: Nigerian Student Fashion and Design Week 2016

This event is the biggest of its kind in Africa where students with fashion and design skills get a platform to showcase their work. The Nigerian Student Fashion and Design Week provide young creative fashion designers from various higher institutions across Nigeria an avenue to network and learn.

We are looking forward to seeing more creative talents in this year’s show. Just yesterday, the organizers announced Zaron Cosmetics as their official makeup partner for this year’s edition.

They are calling on students interested in modelling for the event to come for model casting on the 9^th of July.

Many success stories of emerging fashion designers in Nigeria can be traced back to The Nigerian Student Fashion & Design Week. And they don’t get there by luck, key-role players in the Nigerian fashion industry judge the designs showcased.

Judges from the last edition are, Ejiro Amos-Tafiri, Tewa Onasanya, Kola Kuddus, and Onome Fasan as judges for the showcase.

The winners from last year’s edition of the event are;

Hauwa Liman from Bayero University Kano who emerged as the most creative designer,

Joy Marie from the Open University who made the 1st runner-up position and

Seun Morafa a student of the University of Lagos made the 2nd runner-up postion.

A set of judges will be placed on ground to select the most creative designers to take home amazing prizes in this 4^th edition of the event.

Budding student fashionistas are encouraged to apply on Nigerian Student Fashion and Design Week website .

This year’s event  has been announced as 12^th and 13^th of August. Student designers that will be showcasing at the Nigerian Student Fashion and Design Week 2016 are; Needlepoint, Mzfashionista, Native Spirit, Ripped, Ashillarozae, V’macdel among others.

Think you’ve got what it takes to contest for the most creative designer? Visit their website and register.

What fashion event do you think still need to be created in Nigeria or Africa? Let’s hear from you.