.When it rainfalls, it gathers Lagos. Yet heavy electrical storms weren’t sufficient to keep the style crowd coming from the Emmy Kasbit show, which was the standout of time 3 at Lagos Fashion Week.It’s been one decade because Emmanuel Okoro established the company, and also this collection, entitled Retrospection, was a lyric to his evolution. “I didn’t intend to put out one thing new I wanted to reassess the adventure up until now and what I have actually obtained,” he claimed backstage.
That implied pulling creativity from the archive. A yellow midi dress featuring a hand theme that was part of Okoro’s 1st Lagos Style Week compilation in 2017 was revived as an electronic printing. “Our experts made a decision to redesign what our experts have actually consistently carried out,” he pointed out, incorporating that the objective was actually to make these printings more accessible to today’s viewers through reproducing them in brand new shapes and also colorways.
Take Look 26, where he combined Awkete (a standard hand-woven cloth of Igbo origins) with silk to make a hybrid trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro introduced new digital printings, which were actually made through a small area of artisans in India. Standout appears included a white colored blazer along with a navy-blue block print outfit layered ahead, as well as a men’s hand-dyed indigo tee shirt and also pants set. Other times he played around with various weaving and coloring methods, generating one-of-a-kind items that will speak with the fashion followers in Nigeria and abroad.