Designer Adebayo Oke-Lawal of Orange Culture caused a stir over the weekend with a series of tweets where he challenged banks, who are the giants behind majority of the fashion weeks around the country, to support the Nigerian Fashion industry through grants and investments as well as creation of fresh and innovative platforms for clothing, textile manufacturing and so much more.

January to December, the fashion crowd in Nigeria is besieged with numerous fashion shows from among many others. Not counting the shows in the whole of Africa and around the world. For a fact, fashion weeks have so proliferated that you can attend them all year round

The concept of fashion week is simple: designers presenting collections for the following season to a room full of buyers, editors, media, other designers and industry experts.A more worrying fact, however, is that people have stopped caring and less impact is made through these platforms in the long run on our struggling industry.He further said that the Nigeria Fashion Industry needs the following:

-Clothing Manufacturing,   Fashion Education , Labour Acquisition,  Textile manufacturing most especially developing our indigenous techniques

Read his tweets below: