Africa Fashion Week London Partners with Space House for AFWL2025

Africa Fashion Week London is thrilled to announce Space House as the Official Venue Partner for AFWl2025!

A true London landmark, Space House is known for its bold circular structure, panoramic skyline views, and a legacy rooted in innovation, making it the perfect home for this year’s landmark celebration of African fashion, culture and creativity.

As Africa Fashion Week London celebrates over 15 years of amplifying African and diaspora design talent, AFWL2025 marks a new chapter. Since its launch, Africa Fashion Week London has supported over 3,000 designers and creatives, hosted thousands of visitors, and delivered immersive catwalk shows, vendor exhibitions, and design or experience-led education initiatives across the UK and Africa.

The Space House location marks an appreciation for other design disciplines of architecture and interior design, and we welcome creatives who are interested and excited about interacting with a building that has an incredible history.

This year’s event is the most ambitious to date. Featuring immersive catwalk experiences, interactive brand installations, and thought-leadership panels, all set within the stunning architecture of Space House. Africa Fashion Week London is also planning a longer-term fashion and textile exhibition in the venue’s unique Filling Station space, offering the public a chance to engage with African textile design beyond the catwalk.

Together with Space House, Africa Fashion Week London is not just hosting a fashion week – its creating a platform for global storytelling, sustainable innovation and next-gen cultural exchange.

AFRICA FASHION WEEK LONDON
9-10 AUGUST 2025
SPACE HOUSE
1 KEMBLE STREET
LONDON WC2B 4AN

ABOUT SPACE HOUSE AND SEAFORTH LAND

Situated in the heart of Covent Garden, Space House is one of London’s most architecturally significant and environmentally advanced commercial buildings. Originally designed by George Marsh and Richard Seifert in 1968, the Grade II-listed building has undergone a transformative restoration, delivering a net-zero carbon experiential workplace.

Space House comprises two buildings: The Tower, Covent Garden’s tallest tower at 17 storeys with panoramic views and The Block, an adjoining structure connected via three skybridge floors and outdoor terraces.

Key amenities include:

a 16,000 sq ft double-height event space (Space Studios)

The Space House Club House and Terrace

A one-acre public piazza for cultural activations

London’s largest cycle park provision for any commercial office building.

ABOUT AFRICA FASHION WEEK LONDON

Africa Fashion Week London’s annual catwalk and exhibition event is one of the world’s largest and longest-running showcases of African and African-inspired fashion & design. Now in its 15th year, Africa Fashion Week London (AFWL) has hosted 3000 emerging and established designers and exhibitors to 75,000 visitors, including buyers, retailers, industry professionals and global media.  Overall, 26 African countries and 67 countries have been represented, including diaspora designers from Brazil, Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and the Americas. Additionally, AFWL has produced 12 third-party events such as the Southbank Centre’s Africa Utopia and Meltdown Festival, The Mayor of London’s Africa on the Square, and The Africa Centre’s Summer Festival. Such is the importance of AFWL, that the initiative positively impacts, directly and indirectly, over 5000 individuals annually including SMEs, designers, tailors, textile designers, students, visitors, models, stylists, photographers, journalists, caterers, artists, tech and production staff and lovers of fashion.