.When it rains, it gathers Lagos. But hefty thunderstorms weren’t good enough to keep the manner crowd coming from the Emmy Kasbit program, which was the standout of day 3 at Lagos Style Week.It’s been one decade because Emmanuel Okoro started the company, as well as this collection, labelled Memoir, was a lyric to his advancement. “I failed to wish to put out one thing new I would like to reassess the trip thus far and what I have actually achieved,” he stated backstage.
That indicated attracting motivation coming from the archive. A yellow midi gown featuring a hand motif that became part of Okoro’s initial Lagos Style Full week assortment in 2017 was brought back as an electronic printing. “We made a decision to renovate what we’ve regularly performed,” he said, including that the goal was to create these prints more obtainable to today’s target market through reproducing all of them in brand-new silhouettes as well as colorways.
Take Look 26, where he combined Awkete (a conventional hand-woven textile of Igbo beginnings) with silk to generate a hybrid trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro presented brand new digital prints, which were brought in by a small community of artisans in India. Standout appears featured a white colored blazer with a navy-blue block printing dress layered on top, and a men’s hand-dyed indigo t-shirt and also pants established. Other times he experimented with different interweaving and coloring procedures, creating distinct items that will definitely talk with the fashion trend followers in Nigeria and abroad.