This past quarter allowed me to engage deeply with the parts of African fashion I care about, documentation, education, cultural storytelling, and meaningful dialogue across creative communities.
I began the season interviewing designers through Fashion Week Studio across Paris and Milan. Speaking with global voices shaping contemporary fashion, from emerging designers to established names, reinforced why I remain committed to telling our stories and bridging perspectives across the industry. Every conversation reminded me how much heritage, experimentation, and responsibility continue to shape the direction of fashion today.
At Lagos Fashion Week, I moderated a Business Series session — a collaboration between Lagos Fashion Week and The Fashioned Museum, which I founded. The panel explored the evolution of fabric making in Nigeria and featured three incredible women whose work continues to influence indigenous textiles: Florentina Agu (HERTUNBA), Ifedayo Nupo (Moye Africa), and Michelle Adepoju (Kilentar).
Our conversation touched on preservation, innovation, cultural identity, and the realities artisans face today. Being part of that dialogue reaffirmed how urgent it is to document and protect the techniques, stories, and histories woven into our fabrics.
At GTCO Fashion Weekend, I hosted Invested, where I spoke with founders and creatives such as Bianca Saunders, Jade Oyateru, Melissa Butler, Maria Borges, Christina Tegbe, and Patrick Ta about sustainability, profitability, and long-term decision-making within creative businesses. These conversations showed, again, that creativity thrives when structure and intention are treated with the same seriousness as inspiration.
I closed the quarter with my TEDx talk, “The Languages We Wear,” delivered at TEDxAbuja 2025 under the theme “Our World in Circles.” I spoke about my grandmother, the textiles she passed down, and the kind of knowledge that lives in memory rather than in books. Sharing that story made me even more certain about the mission of The Fashioned Museum to teach, to archive, and to protect the cultural intelligence behind African fashion.
More than anything, this quarter strengthened my dedication to the ongoing work, listening, documenting, teaching, and supporting the communities that keep our textiles alive.