It’s the fashion season again and as a yearly tradition, the GTCO Fashion Weekend returns with its commitment to promote enterprise, provide a platform that supports small businesses, the community and bring Africa’s vast creativity to the forefront of global stage through its deliberate and collective effort to empower and celebrate the incredible talents on the continent. According to the organisers during a media briefing in Lagos recently, the GTCO Fashion Weekend, which is one of the bank’s flagship events to promote the fashion industry and advance the Nigerian economy, tells the stories of heritage, culture, and personal identity through the universal language of fashion. “Beyond self-expression, fashion has become a powerful engine for economic empowerment and the Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO) is deeply committed to being a part of the journey.
” With a working theme of ‘Fashion Move Forward’, the event, which is billed to commence on Saturday, November 9, and run through Sunday, November 10, 2024, at Plot 1 Water Corporation Drive Oniru, Victoria Island Lagos, would feature over 140 free exhibition booths. master-classes, runway, sales, street-wear etc, and fashion lovers and entrepreneur are in for the thrills and frills of the season. The organisers further revealed that this year’s event would be an improvement from previous editions as there is an increase in the number of Nigerian local designers that would showcase alongside designers fro.
