The textile and garment manufacturing conference will open in Lagos to kick start Africa Fashion Week Nigeria 2016 (AFWN 2016). This conference will be held on the 1st of July 2016 at The Eko Hotel Lagos, the first ever conference of its kind, gathering industry experts together under one roof, to deliberate on ways of maximizing the potentials within the fashion industry for greater economic benefits for Nigeria.

The conference is poised to highlight innovative systems that will create a powerful independent economic base for the country using creative energies of young and talented fashion entrepreneurs.

Fashion has the capacity to provide jobs, promote creativity and individualism, channel useful energies to productive use, provide social security, build export capacity and industrial base, create a massive economic base of micro, small and medium scale enterprises, that can lift a social sector or a whole nation, from poverty and obscurity to wealth and global relevance.

Fashion is vast, with correlated industries such as styling, cosmetics, textile manufacturing, photography and costuming as well as retailing and designing. And unlike most industries, the skills required to participate in the fashion sector, are not necessarily obtainable in a higher institution.

The textile and garment manufacturing conference will deal with topics such as Job Creation in the Garment Manufacturing Industry, New Channels of E-commerce in the Fashion Industry, is Textile Manufacturing a Viable Option? Retailing and Setting up a Fashion Business in Nigeria (The Dynamics) and Different Financing Options. `

It will feature astute industry professionals and entrepreneurs from across the globe, covering such professional sectors as marketing, banking, e-commerce and manufacturing.

Africa Fashion Week Nigeria, founded by Nigeria’s own Ronke Ademiluyi, has conquered the Whole of Europe with the London Version of the project to become the biggest fashion platform in Europe promoting Fashion Inspired by Africa.

The Nigerian Edition, Africa Fashion Week Nigeria, will celebrate its third anniversary in July, is perhaps the country’s best sustained and most anticipated fashion runway of international standard, featuring designers from all over Africa.