If you have a passion for fashion and culture, attending this year’s Boston Caribbean Fashion Week (BCFW) is the place for you to be. Founded in 2013, BCFW has grown into a fourday experience of festive fashion events, centered around their four pillars of beauty, culture, fashion and style with this year’s theme of “Ignite.”

The premier event is the closing runway presentation “Collections” Fashion show on Oct. 17 at Wyndham Boston Beacon Hill. The closing fashion show will feature two Massachusetts designers, Kadija Sesay and Catarina Abreu, “who will [bring their] distinct African cultural perspectives to the runway.”

Abreu will be showing her latest Cape Verdean couture collection for the fifth year in a row at BCFW. She shared her excitement about the opportunity to exhibit her fashion clothing line, LLeya P.

“The words that I like to use to describe the brand is to celebrate confidence … and empower,” she said.

“I express my culture through embodying … prints. … Some of the designs … [are] going to be African prints mixed with pearls and different things — a mixture of both worlds,” she said.

Sesay, creative director of Zaikai, which is the name of her clothing line, will present her ready-to-wear brand for the first time at BCFW, representing the culture of Sierra Leone. She says she is also excited to showcase her clothing to an audience like the one at BCFW.

She describes her line “as more casual, everyday, formal outfits.” Sesay also explained how she expresses her culture through her fashion.

“What I’m presenting actually on the runway is our locally made fabric [from her country] … handmade with dye [and] color. Everything is being handmade from back home, and then we bring the modern style into it. … These are fabrics that are specifically made for that woman that doesn’t want to leave her culture behind and still wants to showcase it out there,” she said.

BCFW executive founder and producer Althea Blackford also spoke with the Banner more about this year’s Fashion week theme.

“This year’s theme is “Ignite,” which reflects the energy and creativity behind this year’s season. … We have all these amazing fashion designers that are participating, they’re all independent, but the one thing that they’re all coming together [for] is presenting amazing collections, and there is cultural representation that is seen throughout,” Blackford said.

She also shared what attendees can expect for this year’s fashion and cultural event, such as the BCFW Honors, which showcases four community members in the fashion and Caribbean community who represent their four pillars.

This year’s honorees are Beauty: Jeremy Anaya, founder of Anaya & Co. Studios; Culture: Boston Society of Caribbean Culture and Heritage (BSOCCAH); Fashion: Yolanda Sealy, founder and designer of Dress With Confidence; and Style: Heleena Norvette, wardrobe stylist.

Blackford encourages community members to come out to this fashion and culture week event, especially if they have never attended.

“It’s a great, fun night with the girls, a great date night. It’s one of those events [even] if you’re a non-fashion person, too,” she said. “It’s about the community.”

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