Co-working spaces have become a big deal in Nigeria. With young people seeking ways to run their business at little cost, co-working spaces are on the increase across Nigeria, providing office space and facilities.
While these co-working spaces are beneficial to a lot of entrepreneurs, there are still some categories of entrepreneurs that are left out because they can’t carry out their jobs in regular office spaces. One of such is the fashion designers, and Blessing Achu is meeting their need for a work space with 360 Creative Hub.
Launched in in October 2016, 360 Creative Hub is the first creative and fashion design focused co-working space in Nigeria.
The hub, which you’ll like to call a co-sewing space is a professional studio for fashion designers, tailors, pattern makers and textile artists. It makes the birth and growth of fashion brands easier by providing boutique support services to fashion designers at an affordable rate.
Through 360 Creative Hub, fashion entrepreneurs are provided access to their own private space where they can dream and imagine designs with the co-factoring section, where they will find all the specific machine they need for production, creating and building their passion.
Asides providing a co-sewing space for fashion entrepreneurs, there’s also the 360 Creative Hub Fashion incubator programme, an annual Designer-in-Residency program that incubates emerging fashion designers, grooming them to be the next high street Nigerian brands.
The 360 Fashion Incubator (360 FI) program is built for designers fashion focused on apparel and/or accessories making, looking to launch and/or accelerate their fashion businesses. Through the course of three (3) months, the Designers-in-Residence (DIR) are required to attend and complete a mandatory core curriculum of workshops and seminars focused on business development.
Like other co-working spaces, 360 Creative Hub also offers entrepreneurs a furnished and comfortable workstation with access to high speed Internet and power, where they also have opportunity to collaborate with innovators, founders and freelancers to create, nature and grow their startups.
The fashion industry is one that keeps growing, as a lot of emerging fashion designers join in every year. Many of them find it difficult to keep up with the stiff competition in the industry because of lack of resources, but with 360 Creative Hub’s solution, getting into the fashion business has become a lot cheaper and easier.
