Backstage at Lagos Fashion Week 2017

Model poses backstage, ready to hit the runway at Lagos Fashion Week 2017.Model wears Loza Maleombho Spring / Summer 2018.
Loza Maléombho is a fusion between traditional cultures and sub-cultures and contemporary design. The brand’s signature silhouettes celebrate the paradox of the old and new, and the synergies between Ivorian tribal aesthetics and New York’s urban fashion. Working with artisans who have been crafting for generations, Loza Maléombho finds ways to translate age-old practices into modern, trendsetting design. Founded in 2009 in New York City by Loza Maléombho, the designer’s eponymous brand relocated to Côte d’Ivoire in 2012, where all production takes place. Crafted out of the designer’s own experience of having been born in Brazil and raised between Côte d’Ivoire and the United States.
Lagos Fashion Week (LagosFW) is a fashion platform that drives the Nigerian and ultimately, the African fashion industry; by bringing together buyers, consumers and the media to view the current collections of designers at a four day event in the fashion capital of Lagos, Nigeria. As a leading fashion event on the African fashion calendar, LagosFW leads the way with initiatives that supports, strengthens and develops the fashion industry. Beyond the runway, the annual event provides a physical platform that’s gradually repositioning fashion as a useful tool for commerce and creativity in Nigeria."