Green Access is Lagos Fashion Week’s flagship accelerator dedicated to emerging designers focused on sustainability and innovation through African craftsmanship. The 2025 cycle challenges designers to rethink pre and post consumer textile waste as both raw material and creative opportunities. This includes exploring indigenous craft techniques, fostering youth development, and creating circular systems that are open, adaptive, and regenerative.
For 2025, Lagos Fashion Week will partner with NAHOUS for a one-week residency during the programme. The initiative will also feature an exclusive editorial collaboration with Guzangs Magazine, offering deeper storytelling around the designers and their work.
The program runs as a hybrid format with three weeks of virtual sessions followed by practical workshops where designers develop capsule collections. Each participant will present three looks showcasing sustainable materials, craftsmanship, and innovation at Lagos Fashion Week.
Applications are open to emerging designers in or connected to Africa until September 11, 2025.
