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Lagos Leather-based Honest, an annual showcase of the African leather-based trade, has introduced the launch of its 2024 truthful with the theme ‘Levelling Up’ to drive development within the African leather-based ecosystem.
In its seventh version, the truthful will carry collectively leather-based fanatics, designers, producers, suppliers and trade companions from all over the world to ship a fastidiously curated expertise that highlights the range of African tradition, creativity and craftsmanship.
Along with its companions and sponsors, this 12 months’s LLF will have interaction individuals in conversations and initiatives that goal to advance the training ecosystem. These embody enhancing socio-economic affect, adopting sustainable and modern practices, growing trade competitors and international partnerships, and enhancing provide chain effectivity inside the trade.
Led by Femi Olayebi, Lagos Leather-based Honest is the third largest leather-based truthful in Africa, behind its South African and Ethiopian counterparts in delivering distinctive worth throughout the continent. From June 29 to 30, the occasion on the Balmoral Conference Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, will characteristic workshops, masterclasses, prizes, exhibitions from proficient leather-based designers and artists, investor pitches from rising designers (Pitch-A-Leather-based-Biz), a catwalk presentation designed by Toyin Ogundadegbe, The Fashion Infidel, in addition to a particular immersive studying set up – Past the Cover – curated by Kanyinsade Ademuson, founding father of the architectural agency Seventh Area.
LLF 2024
“Over time, organizing the Lagos Leather-based Honest has given us a function to do extra and advance the African leather-based trade,” mentioned Femi Olayebi, Founding father of LLF. “LLF is a celebration of the potential achieved by means of regionally sourced craftsmanship and this 12 months we’re partnering with extraordinarily proficient people to create a compelling expertise that invitations individuals and attendees to hitch us on that journey. We’re very grateful to our sponsors and collaborators for his or her assist in stewarding this priceless custom that continues to uplift the African studying ecosystem.”
Throughout the present, expert-led periods will educate individuals on a spread of area of interest matters, from model positioning and visibility, sourcing and manufacturing options to the artwork of pictures and the ability of deploying AI instruments throughout the worth chain. As well as, innovation and creativity are acknowledged by means of the LLF Awards, rewarding designers’ efforts within the following classes: Most Modern Designer Award, Trailblazer Award, Model Excellence Award, Greatest Sales space Design Award, Greatest Rising Designer Award and Greatest Curated Instagram Web page.
LLF welcomed greater than 3,500 guests every year throughout the earlier version and creates a novel and dynamic expertise that showcases the expertise of leather-based creatives and numerous types of African leather-based merchandise.
For extra details about the Lagos Leather-based Honest, go to www.thelagosleatherfair.com or www.instagram.com/lagosleatherfair/.
Lagos Leather-based Honest (LLF) goals to take the African leather-based ecosystem to the subsequent stage with an annual occasion
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