Parents urged to support children aspiring to become fashion designers

The Creative Director of Qubraz Designs and Fashion Academy, Mrs. Yewande Hakeem-Habeeb, has called on parents to support their children interested in developing careers in fashion design.

She made this call while giving her keynote address at the 2022 Fashion Show held at Greensprings School, Anthony campus in Lagos.

According to her, fashion design is a highly rewarding profession with a low barrier entry; therefore, parents should encourage their wards if they show interest in the profession.

Greensprings Anthony campus’ Head of School, Mrs Magdalene Okrikri, while corroborating the assertion, said the yearly fashion show was organised to create opportunities for career discovery for students fascinated by the fashion industry.

Okrikri said: “At Greensprings School, aside from academics, we are keenly interested in helping our students discover their talents and make them future-ready. In line with this, one of the things we do is to identify our students who love fashion designing, then we give them the opportunity to plan and execute the yearly fashion show, to enable them to get first-hand experience in the art of putting together a fashion show.

“We believe the show would help them discover a career path and whether they take fashion design as a major profession or side hustle in the future, the learnings from the show will be extremely useful to them.”

The school’s art and design teacher who coordinated the show, Mrs Anuoluwapo Adeyemi, also spoke about its importance, stating that the show allowed the students to show their creativity.

Adeyemi said: “The theme of our fashion show this year is High Low ‘#DrivenByStripes’ the theme was inspired by the fact that the High Low style is going out of fashion, so we decided to bring it back in a creative way while incorporating stripe designs. Through the show, our students learnt about sketching, fabric sourcing, sewing, running a clothing line and working with models. During the show, we had five clothing lines, with 15 models each, and the event served as an avenue for our students to showcase their creativity with fashion,” she stated.