.When it storms, it gathers Lagos. But hefty thunderstorms weren’t sufficient to always keep the fashion crowd coming from the Emmy Kasbit show, which was actually the standout of day 3 at Lagos Fashion Week.It’s been actually ten years considering that Emmanuel Okoro established the brand name, and also this compilation, titled Retrospection, was actually an ode to his development. “I failed to wish to produce something new I wanted to assess the adventure up until now and also what I have achieved,” he pointed out backstage.
That meant attracting creativity coming from the archive. A yellow midi outfit including a hand theme that was part of Okoro’s initial Lagos Fashion Week assortment in 2017 was revived as an electronic print. “Our experts determined to renovate what our company have actually always done,” he mentioned, including that the objective was actually to create these prints more accessible to today’s audience by recreating them in brand new silhouettes as well as colorways.
Take Look 26, where he combined Awkete (a traditional hand-woven cloth of Igbo sources) along with cotton to create a combination trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro presented brand-new digital prints, which were actually brought in through a little neighborhood of professionals in India. Standout looks featured a white blazer with a navy-blue block printing dress layered ahead, and also a men’s hand-dyed indigo tee as well as shorts specified. Various other times he experimented with different interweaving and also coloring procedures, creating distinct pieces that will definitely talk with the style fans in Nigeria and abroad.