Lagos Nights

Lagos Nights

Lagos Nights is a fashion editorial created as my final portfolio assignment for the Maven AI Creative Direction course. It explores young men drifting through an imagined sub-Saharan city at night, where identity, ritual and status dissolve into one continuous narrative.

Creative Intent

Position the project between fashion editorial and modern mythology, creating a world that feels both familiar and impossible.

Creative Direction

Harsh on-axis flash, deep shadows and night traffic create a raw documentary edge, while symbolic styling, talismans and the recurring presence of a spirit animal introduce a sense of myth.

Visual Language

Abrupt crops, motion blur and cinematic compositions balance polished fashion imagery with moments that feel instinctive, fragmented and half-found.

Outcome

A fashion editorial that blurs documentary realism with fiction, where every frame feels like a fragment of a larger world—between ritual and runway.