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Lagos Fashion Week opens Woven Threads VII: Crafted-but this isn’t about spectacle. It’s about slowing down. In a fashion landscape driven by speed, virality, and constant output, Crafted shifts the conversation back to process-the hands, the materials, the thinking behind the final piece. Here, textiles are not just fabrics; they are archives. Techniques are not just skills; they are inheritances. Across exhibitions and conversations, designers and practitioners are interrogating what it...

When self-proclaimed relationship expert Blessing CEO announced a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, the reaction was swift, emotional, and, for many, deeply sympathetic. But as inconsistencies began to surface, sympathy gave way to suspicion. And suspicion, in true Nigerian internet fashion, quickly turned into spectacle. But beyond the individual controversy lies a more unsettling question: What kind of society makes room for this-and sustains it? In the chaotic theatre of social media, clout has...

Long before the medals, the world records, and the global spotlight, their paths had already begun to circle each other. As young athletes navigating the same competitive spaces, their worlds brushed shoulders, but never quite collided. That changed in 2018 with something far less dramatic than a finish-line sprint: a direct message. It wasn’t grand. It wasn’t rehearsed. Just a simple question that felt almost disarmingly ordinary: “Do you cook?” But sometimes, the smallest openings carry the...