Husband-and-wife team Nick and Simone Monu -- of fashion label Monu and Monu -- took up the green theme in their designs, incorporating carrier bags, bin liners, and even one of their daughter's old toys.

CNN: Green is this season's color at Nigeria Fashion Week

"We have a natural way of recycling in Africa but what we don't do is commercialize it, which is necessary -- taking things and making sure they are reused or remade into something that can be used again, " said Nick Monu.

CNN: Green is this season's color at Nigeria Fashion Week