Lagos Fashion Week

WOVEN THREADS VII: “CRAFTED”
9TH – 12TH APRIL, 2026
Venue: 274A Kofo Abayomi, Victoria Island
Facilitated by Verde by Cadwell (@verdebycadwell )
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Curated by Sunny Dolat
Co-Founder, The Nest Collective
Cultural Producer & Creative Director, Nairobi
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This edition of Woven Threads centres craft as method, process, and system, focusing on how materials are understood, and how production is sustained within a circular framework. The physical presentations and installations feature designers and practitioners working across textiles, material innovation, and form.
CRAFTED expands into a programme of talks, workshops, and live demonstrations, including sessions on upcycling and reconstruction, conversations with the curator, and panel discussions on circularity, material futures, and responsible production. Live demonstrations present weaving, macramé, and adaptive reuse in practice.
Through these approaches, CRAFTED addresses waste by extending material life, encouraging reuse, and rethinking how fashion is produced and consumed. It brings together designers, makers, and cultural producers to engage with fashion as a system shaped by material, labour, and community.
IRAPADA launches as a SHF and Bestseller Foundation research supported by LAWMA, examining waste within Lagos’ fashion ecosystem. The initiative works with selected designers to transform pre- and post-consumer waste into new collections, while introducing systems for waste tracking, documentation, and responsible material use.
Woven Threads VII is an initiative of Style House Files and Lagos Fashion Week.
Woven Threads VII is Open to the public from 10th – 12th April 2026 At 274A Kofo Abayomi, Victoria Island.
Photography: @adedamola_op
Creative Direction : @sunnydolat
Produced by : @stylehousefiles
Makeup : @casskoncept1
Designer : @thisisusng @nkwo_official
Models : @bethmodelafrica