Glam, style @ R2W Expo

Organiser of "Ready-To-Wear 2018  Expo"-Mrs Ade Awofeso (2nd left) with panelist- Mrs Funke Medun and others  at Award Nite of R2W EXPO In Lagos

The recently concluded fashion designing “Ready-To-Wear 2018 Expo” has come and gone, but the memory will still linger in minds of those who had the opportunity to attend the event.  The event gave much of shared values, master classes, exhibition, runway fashion show and others to the diverse participants.
Tagged “R2W EXPO 2018”, the three-day event was aimed at the need for designers, both old and young, to come together and forge a well-knitted formidable unit and take their destiny in their hands as they grow together and innovate in view of the potential Asian market take-over.         

One of the major, take-home points is the need to build an industry- a hub where mass production of Nigerian-African designed wears take place.  Reputed ready-to-wear designer and CEO of Wardrobe, Mrs Ade Awofeso, in her session on ‘Garment making process – the critical path’, educated fashion designers and participants on the need for quality control and adopting the business of fashion. She enumerated innovative appliances and equipment that designers must acquire for the R2W fashion industry to be taken serious, such machines like scanners, laser cutter, BOK, 3D-machine, marker expert and others.



Some of the wears displayed by a designer

 “China is ready to take over the industry from us because they are business-like and they are leveraging on technology like never before. My trip to the Asian country last year opened my eyes to a lot of things. Do you know that Chinese are manufacturing Aso-Oke fabrics, what we taught was solely exclusive to the Yoruba and Nigerian fabric makers? I was taken round to see their hub, clusters and we are still struggling to have our own ready-to-wear designer’s hub. Seeing the machines that have made it easy for the textile industry to thrive in China, I was moved to reflect on what our government was doing as our textile mills have become moribund and we have to import some of these materials”.
The platform that will bring about the ready-to-wear hub- a production hub like CC Hub at Yaba, was launched by Mr Uwaoma, Consultant for the Expo. “We may never reap the good of this tree but our children and the next generation. The all of us is bigger than a single entity. Together as a force we can build the Nigerian ready-to-wear hub in our lifetime”.

The Expo ended with awards to some distinguished personalities who contributed to the success of the  expo. The personalities included Mrs Funke Ajila-Ladipo, president of Fashion Designers Association of Nigeria (FADAN), Engineer Leke Awofeso, Mr Wole Ogundare, Mr Eizu Uwaoma and Mrs Funke Medun, among others.



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