.When it rains, it pours in Lagos. But massive electrical storms weren’t sufficient to keep the fashion trend crowd from the Emmy Kasbit program, which was actually the standout of time 3 at Lagos Fashion Week.It’s been ten years considering that Emmanuel Okoro started the company, and also this collection, labelled Memoir, was actually an ode to his evolution. “I really did not want to produce one thing brand-new I wanted to assess the journey until now and what I have attained,” he stated backstage.
That meant drawing creativity coming from the store. A yellow midi gown including a palm concept that was part of Okoro’s very first Lagos Fashion Week collection in 2017 was rejuvenated as a digital print. “Our experts decided to redesign what our experts’ve regularly done,” he mentioned, including that the goal was to make these printings even more easily accessible to today’s audience by recreating all of them in brand-new silhouettes and colorways.
Take Look 26, where he blended Awkete (a standard hand-woven fabric of Igbo origins) along with cotton to make a combination trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro offered brand-new digital printings, which were brought in by a little area of professionals in India. Standout looks featured a white sports jacket with a navy-blue block print dress layered on top, and also a men’s hand-dyed indigo tee shirt and also shorts set. Other opportunities he experimented with various weaving and dyeing strategies, developing unique pieces that will certainly speak to the fashion trend followers in Nigeria and abroad.