Nigeria Fashion Week debuts in Abuja, aiming to boost capital's creative scene

Nigeria Fashion Week has moved from bustling Lagos to the quieter capital, Abuja, showcasing avant-garde designs and aiming to establish the city as a fashion hub. The event features elaborate costumes inspired by Carnival aesthetics, highlighting the evolving cultural landscape of Abuja.

ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigerian models donned outfits of seemingly impossible amounts of fabric folded and moulded into massive silhouettes, or overlapping in shingled, feather-like patterns.

Nigeria Fashion Week in Abuja

The colourful, detailed textiles evoked Carnival -- both Nigeria's own, in the southeastern city of Calabar, or that of Rio de Janeiro fame -- but were in fact splashing down a runway in Abuja, better known for being the sleepy seat of government than for avant-garde couture. Nigeria Fashion Week, which wraps up Sunday, decamped from Lagos this year, trading the mega-city of more than 20 million -- the nation's economic and artistic mecca -- for the centrally planned administrative centre, which nonetheless has developed its own, smaller creative scene.

"Abuja is slow, slow in every way. People are very laid back," Lexy Mojo-Eyes, the dapper organiser of the fashion week, who cut his teeth in Lagos, told AFP.

Building Abuja's Fashion Future

"We want to change the dynamics, we want to build Abuja as a fashion city. "

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