.When it rains, it pours in Lagos. But hefty thunderstorms weren’t enough to maintain the fashion group coming from the Emmy Kasbit show, which was actually the standout of day three at Lagos Manner Week.It’s been actually 10 years given that Emmanuel Okoro established the label, and also this assortment, labelled Memoir, was actually a lyric to his development. “I really did not intend to put out one thing new I wanted to reassess the experience so far as well as what I have actually attained,” he pointed out backstage.
That indicated attracting creativity coming from the archive. A yellow midi dress featuring a hand design that became part of Okoro’s first Lagos Fashion trend Week selection in 2017 was revived as an electronic print. “We made a decision to upgrade what our experts’ve always performed,” he pointed out, including that the goal was to make these printings a lot more obtainable to today’s target market through recreating all of them in brand new silhouettes as well as colorways.
Take Look 26, where he combined Awkete (a conventional hand-woven fabric of Igbo sources) along with cotton to make a crossbreed trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro presented brand new electronic prints, which were actually brought in through a tiny neighborhood of craftsmans in India. Standout appears included a white colored sports jacket with a navy-blue block printing gown layered ahead, and a men’s hand-dyed indigo tshirt and pants specified. Other times he experimented with various interweaving and also coloring procedures, developing unique items that are going to talk to the fashion trend fans in Nigeria and abroad.