High fashion workshop excites young talents

In a bid to create opportunities for young talents to develop their skills in the area of fashion and modeling, Abi Goodman of OZ Consulting Firm recently teamed up with the Toronto Fashion Academy, Canada for a training session tagged High fashion Workshop: Fashion 101.

Held at the Red carpet Evet Centre, Oniru, Lagos, the session, which featured classes in fashion designing, modeling, makeup and photography, had in attendance celebrity fashion designer Abril Cervera, celebrity photographer Ruth Xospa, as well as other internationally acclaimed fashion icons.

Aside the training session, the event also saw some outstanding participants win summer trips to Canada, where they are scheduled to meet with acclaimed international designers and also grace some high profile fashion runways. Selected participants have been featured in Red Carpet, a Mexican High Fashion magazine with many more other features to come.

Omokanye Olanike, a 22-year-old graduate from the Federal University of Technology, Minna, was selected as one of the outstanding participants of the workshop, as well as Ochuonu Uchenna, a 17-year-old student of the University of Lagos and Ogeyinbo Joy Adeola, who is a student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.

Four other participants also won free fashion internship in Canada, courtesy of the Toronto Fashion Academy.

Riding on the success of the first edition, The High Fashion Workshop: Fashion 101 will returns to Lagos on September 26t to 29, 2018.