.When it rainfalls, it pours in Lagos. Yet hefty thunderstorms weren’t sufficient to always keep the style group coming from the Emmy Kasbit program, which was actually the standout of day three at Lagos Fashion trend Week.It’s been actually one decade considering that Emmanuel Okoro established the brand, as well as this assortment, titled Memoir, was an ode to his evolution. “I really did not want to produce one thing new I desired to reflect on the adventure up until now as well as what I have actually attained,” he said backstage.
That implied attracting motivation coming from the older post. A yellow midi outfit including a hand theme that was part of Okoro’s very first Lagos Style Week compilation in 2017 was revitalized as an electronic print. “Our company made a decision to redesign what our company’ve consistently done,” he said, adding that the target was to make these printings more easily accessible to today’s audience through reproducing them in new shapes as well as colorways.
Take Look 26, where he mixed Awkete (a typical hand-woven fabric of Igbo origins) with cotton to produce a crossbreed trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro offered brand-new digital prints, which were actually brought in by a small neighborhood of craftsmens in India. Standout looks included a white colored sports jacket along with a navy-blue block print dress layered on top, as well as a guys’s hand-dyed indigo t-shirt and shorts established. Other times he played around with various weaving and coloring procedures, making one-of-a-kind pieces that will definitely talk to the manner fans in Nigeria and abroad.