.When it storms, it pours in Lagos. But heavy thunderstorms weren’t sufficient to maintain the fashion crowd coming from the Emmy Kasbit show, which was the standout of time 3 at Lagos Style Week.It’s been one decade because Emmanuel Okoro established the company, and this collection, titled Memoir, was an ode to his progression. “I failed to want to produce one thing brand new I would like to reassess the experience so far and also what I have accomplished,” he stated backstage.
That indicated drawing creativity from the repository. A yellow midi outfit featuring a palm motif that belonged to Okoro’s very first Lagos Manner Full week assortment in 2017 was actually revitalized as an electronic printing. “Our experts chose to revamp what our team have actually regularly performed,” he said, adding that the objective was to create these prints more easily accessible to today’s reader by reproducing them in brand-new silhouettes and colorways.
Take Look 26, where he combined Awkete (a conventional hand-woven fabric of Igbo origins) along with cotton to generate a combination trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro offered brand new digital prints, which were actually brought in by a small neighborhood of craftsmens in India. Standout appears included a white sports jacket with a navy-blue block print outfit layered on the top, as well as a men’s hand-dyed indigo t shirt and shorts set. Other times he played around with various weaving and dyeing approaches, producing distinct pieces that will definitely contact the style fans in Nigeria and also abroad.