If you’ve been outside anytime in the last five years, you already know the Vogue Boys don’t throw events — they curate experiences. What started as a homegrown movement in Lagos has now gone international this summer.
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If you’ve been outside anytime in the last five years, you already know the Vogue Boys don’t throw events — they curate experiences. What started as a homegrown movement in Lagos has now gone international this summer.
After a packed Q2 that included their fifth annual Easter Cookout — a waterpark music festival that turned Freedom Park into a rave jungle — the Vogue Boys set their sights on Europe. In June, they pulled off not one, but two takeovers in cultural capitals: Milan and Paris.
On June 10, the Vogue Boys brought Lagos to Milan in technicolor. Hosted at Triennale Milano, Italy’s most revered design museum, their stage at the Hyperlocal Club Victoria Island event was anything but quiet. Over 1,000 Italians got their first taste of the Vogue Boys’ chaos-as-aesthetic formula.
The lineup was stacked: SL THE DJ, XNIA, Grey93, and Ademola Falomo kept the pulse high, joined by Julrity, the Barcelona-based Naija star girl, and resident spirit-lifter Ebuka Nwobu. And what’s a Vogue Boys event without their now-iconic masquerade showing up to shake the vibe table?
In a city known for fashion weeks and aperitivos, the sounds of Lagos thundered through the air. Milan will recover — eventually.
Not done yet, the Vogue Boys rolled into Paris two weeks later on June 24 for the first international edition of their signature party, DIRTY, SEXY RAVE. If you blinked, you missed it — the RSVP waitlist had over 200 names, and the venue hit capacity within an hour.
It was the first day of Paris Fashion Week, but inside the rave, the only runway was the dance floor. Faces in the crowd included Young Jonn, Rahman Jago, Lady Donli, Cruel Santino, and Joey Lit from Ghanaian fashion collective Free The Youth.
The music was as global as the guest list: Dre Tala, Carla Genus, and XNIA repped Paris, while Vivendii Sound and Jeenius held down London, and Xzavier Zulu came in from Jo’burg. Lagos’ Yosa and Aniko tied it all together, making sure the Naija spirit never left the building.
More than just international bookings, the Vogue Boys’ summer proves something deeper — Nigerian youth culture is a global export. And not in a watered-down, Afrobeats-for-the-mainstream way. This is culture on our own terms: messy, bold, joyful, and just a little bit unhinged.
By fusing music, fashion, dance, and just the right amount of chaos, they’ve cracked a code few collectives manage — making cool look effortless while still carrying community on their backs.
If you missed the Euro raves, redemption awaits. The Vogue Boys will be active across Nigeria from July to December, serving heat across multiple cities.
Summer might be cooling off, but the Vogue Boys are just heating up.
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