.When it storms, it pours in Lagos. But heavy thunderstorms weren’t sufficient to keep the fashion trend group from the Emmy Kasbit program, which was the standout of time three at Lagos Fashion Week.It’s been one decade due to the fact that Emmanuel Okoro started the company, as well as this selection, labelled Memoir, was actually an ode to his progression. “I really did not desire to produce something brand-new I would like to review the journey up until now and what I have obtained,” he pointed out backstage.
That indicated drawing creativity from the archive. A yellow midi gown including a palm theme that belonged to Okoro’s very first Lagos Fashion Full week collection in 2017 was actually revitalized as a digital print. “We made a decision to revamp what our team have actually consistently performed,” he mentioned, adding that the target was actually to make these prints more obtainable to today’s reader through recreating all of them in brand-new silhouettes and also colorways.
Take Look 26, where he combined Awkete (a typical hand-woven textile of Igbo origins) along with cotton to develop a crossbreed trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro presented brand new digital printings, which were made by a tiny area of professionals in India. Standout looks included a white colored sports jacket along with a navy-blue block printing dress layered on top, as well as a males’s hand-dyed indigo tee shirt as well as pants set. Various other times he played around with different weaving and dyeing strategies, developing unique pieces that will certainly speak with the fashion trend fans in Nigeria and abroad.