.When it storms, it pours in Lagos. But hefty electrical storms weren’t enough to always keep the style group coming from the Emmy Kasbit series, which was the standout of time three at Lagos Manner Week.It’s been actually one decade given that Emmanuel Okoro founded the label, and this collection, labelled Retrospection, was an ode to his evolution. “I really did not intend to produce something new I wanted to reflect on the trip thus far and what I have accomplished,” he said backstage.
That suggested attracting motivation coming from the repository. A yellow midi outfit including a palm theme that belonged to Okoro’s very first Lagos Fashion trend Week selection in 2017 was actually brought back as a digital print. “Our team chose to upgrade what our team have actually always carried out,” he stated, incorporating that the objective was actually to create these prints much more obtainable to today’s reader through recreating them in brand-new shapes and colorways.
Take Look 26, where he combined Awkete (a standard hand-woven cloth of Igbo sources) with cotton to generate a combination trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro presented new electronic printings, which were actually made by a tiny area of craftsmans in India. Standout looks consisted of a white sports jacket along with a navy-blue block printing outfit layered ahead, and a men’s hand-dyed indigo t-shirt and shorts set. Various other opportunities he played around with different weaving and also dyeing methods, generating unique pieces that will talk to the style fans in Nigeria as well as abroad.