.When it storms, it gathers Lagos. Yet hefty thunderstorms weren’t good enough to maintain the style crowd from the Emmy Kasbit program, which was the standout of day three at Lagos Style Week.It’s been actually ten years since Emmanuel Okoro founded the label, and this collection, titled Memoir, was actually a lyric to his progression. “I failed to intend to produce one thing brand new I desired to review the adventure up until now and also what I have achieved,” he claimed backstage.
That indicated pulling motivation coming from the archive. A yellow midi gown featuring a palm concept that became part of Okoro’s very first Lagos Fashion Week assortment in 2017 was actually revitalized as an electronic printing. “Our team chose to upgrade what our experts’ve consistently done,” he stated, incorporating that the goal was to create these printings more easily accessible to today’s target market through recreating all of them in new silhouettes and colorways.
Take Look 26, where he combined Awkete (a typical hand-woven fabric of Igbo sources) with silk to generate a combination trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro introduced brand-new electronic printings, which were actually brought in through a tiny neighborhood of craftsmans in India. Standout appears included a white colored blazer along with a navy-blue block printing dress layered on top, and also a males’s hand-dyed indigo shirt as well as shorts prepared. Various other opportunities he experimented with different interweaving as well as coloring approaches, making unique parts that are going to talk with the fashion fans in Nigeria and abroad.