Africa’s fashion industry is growing to meet global demands but needs more investment, UNESCO says

Models wear a creation by Rendoll during the Lagos Fashion Week in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. Africa's fashion industry is rapidly growing to meet local and international demands but a lack of adequate investment still limits its full potential, UNESCO said Thursday in its new report released at this year's Lagos Fashion Week show.

Across the continent, fashion continues to grow on various fronts – including in movies and films – in the form of textiles, garments as well as accessories and fine crafts, all with a long history of prestige and symbolic of the African culture. “Africans want to wear Africa. It’s really beautiful to see because it hasn’t always been like this,” said Omoyemi Akerele, who founded the Lagos Fashion Week in 2011 to encourage the patronage of Nigerian and African fashion. “But fast forward, a decade after, that’s all people want to wear."

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