.When it rainfalls, it pours in Lagos. But heavy electrical storms weren’t good enough to maintain the manner group coming from the Emmy Kasbit series, which was actually the standout of day 3 at Lagos Style Week.It’s been ten years since Emmanuel Okoro founded the brand, and this selection, labelled Recollection, was actually an ode to his development. “I didn’t would like to produce one thing new I intended to assess the journey up until now as well as what I have actually achieved,” he stated backstage.
That suggested pulling creativity from the archive. A yellow midi dress including a palm theme that belonged to Okoro’s very first Lagos Fashion Week compilation in 2017 was revitalized as a digital printing. “Our team decided to revamp what our company have actually consistently carried out,” he stated, adding that the objective was to create these printings much more obtainable to today’s target market by recreating all of them in brand-new shapes and colorways.
Take Look 26, where he blended Awkete (a standard hand-woven cloth of Igbo origins) with cotton to generate a hybrid trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro presented new digital prints, which were actually brought in through a tiny area of artisans in India. Standout appears featured a white blazer with a navy-blue block printing outfit layered on top, as well as a men’s hand-dyed indigo t shirt as well as shorts set. Various other opportunities he experimented with various weaving and dyeing methods, generating unique items that will definitely speak to the fashion trend fans in Nigeria as well as abroad.