.When it rainfalls, it gathers Lagos. But hefty electrical storms weren’t sufficient to keep the fashion crowd coming from the Emmy Kasbit series, which was the standout of day three at Lagos Fashion trend Week.It’s been 10 years given that Emmanuel Okoro started the company, and this collection, labelled Memoir, was an ode to his evolution. “I didn’t would like to put out something new I would like to reflect on the quest thus far as well as what I have actually attained,” he said backstage.
That indicated drawing creativity coming from the archive. A yellow midi dress including a hand motif that became part of Okoro’s first Lagos Manner Week collection in 2017 was revived as an electronic print. “Our team decided to revamp what our company have actually regularly done,” he claimed, adding that the target was actually to create these printings a lot more obtainable to today’s viewers through reproducing all of them in brand new silhouettes and also colorways.
Take Look 26, where he mixed Awkete (a standard hand-woven fabric of Igbo origins) with cotton to produce a hybrid trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro introduced brand-new electronic printings, which were created by a small area of craftsmens in India. Standout looks consisted of a white sports jacket with a navy-blue block print gown layered on the top, as well as a males’s hand-dyed indigo t shirt and also pants set. Other times he experimented with different weaving as well as coloring strategies, developing distinct pieces that are going to talk to the fashion followers in Nigeria and also abroad.