.When it storms, it gathers Lagos. However hefty electrical storms weren’t good enough to keep the manner group coming from the Emmy Kasbit series, which was the standout of day three at Lagos Fashion Week.It’s been 10 years considering that Emmanuel Okoro started the brand name, as well as this selection, labelled Retrospection, was actually an ode to his evolution. “I didn’t want to produce something brand-new I wanted to reflect on the experience thus far and what I have achieved,” he pointed out backstage.
That meant pulling inspiration coming from the store. A yellow midi gown featuring a palm design that became part of Okoro’s first Lagos Style Full week compilation in 2017 was actually brought back as an electronic print. “We decided to redesign what we’ve regularly performed,” he stated, adding that the target was actually to make these printings even more accessible to today’s viewers through recreating all of them in brand new silhouettes and colorways.
Take Look 26, where he mixed Awkete (a typical hand-woven cloth of Igbo origins) with silk to develop a hybrid trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro offered brand-new digital printings, which were actually made through a small area of artisans in India. Standout appears included a white blazer with a navy-blue block printing dress layered on top, and also a men’s hand-dyed indigo tee shirt and also pants specified. Various other opportunities he played around with various weaving and coloring procedures, producing special items that will speak to the fashion followers in Nigeria and abroad.