Using Empowerment through Creativity in Fashion Design for Post-Covid19 Pandemic Unemployment Alleviation

Abstract

Recognizing that fashion design is an emerging trend in Sub Saharan Africa with some level of creativity empowering the unemployed youth through skills acquisition from the fashion school cannot be over emphasized. Fashion design manifests art, culture and symbolism, a multi billion dollar industry that creates jobs for designers, models, event organizers, men and women, young and adults. However, fashion design needs to be given the proper attention, mostly in public fashion schools in Nigeria. Given this, this study was conducted on creativity in fashion design: a means of sustaining clothing and textile among students in private and public fashion design schools for empowerment in southwest Nigeria. Two hundred students were randomly selected from home science management, clothing and textile in four Federal Colleges of Education and two Federal Universities in Lagos and Ogun State. In comparison, seventy students were selected from private fashion schools to make 270 respondents the sample size for the study.