To signal the start of the Heineken Lagos Fashion and Design Week (HLFDW) there was a prelude tagged, Fashion Focus Talks, where the likes of TV presenter and model, Eku Edewor, the founder AsoebiBella, Ink Eze and fashion designer, Tsemaye Binitie addressed a large audience of style writers, models, photographers, beauticians, dieticians and others in the fashion business.
The event, with the theme, From Fashion To Profit, was targeted at emerging and aspiring fashion entrepreneurs in Enugu, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Lagos.
The 2017 Fashion Focus Talks featured a series of carefully curated classes aimed at opening up creative minds to explore different, and sometimes alternative ways of making their careers profitable.
The series also featured fashion industry stakeholders like, Kelechi Amadi-Obi, Photographer and Publisher of Style Mania Magazine; Zara Odu, Brand Developer; George Okoro, Photographer; Omoyemi Akerele, Founder of Style House Files; Yummie Ogbebor, Bolaji Fawehinmi, Few Model Management Director and Ezinne Chinkata, a Fashion Consultant.