.When it rains, it pours in Lagos. But hefty thunderstorms weren’t sufficient to maintain the fashion crowd coming from the Emmy Kasbit program, which was actually the standout of time three at Lagos Manner Week.It’s been actually one decade because Emmanuel Okoro established the label, as well as this assortment, entitled Memoir, was actually an ode to his evolution. “I really did not want to produce one thing brand new I wanted to reassess the trip up until now and what I have achieved,” he stated backstage.
That meant drawing motivation from the older post. A yellow midi outfit including a palm concept that belonged to Okoro’s first Lagos Style Week compilation in 2017 was actually restored as a digital printing. “Our experts made a decision to redesign what our company have actually regularly performed,” he stated, including that the target was actually to make these prints much more accessible to today’s reader by reproducing all of them in new shapes and also colorways.
Take Look 26, where he blended Awkete (a standard hand-woven textile of Igbo beginnings) with silk to produce a combination trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro launched brand new digital prints, which were brought in through a small community of artisans in India. Standout looks included a white colored sports jacket with a navy-blue block print outfit layered on top, and a males’s hand-dyed indigo tee shirt and pants prepared. Other times he experimented with different weaving and dyeing strategies, making distinct items that will speak with the manner fans in Nigeria as well as abroad.