.When it rains, it gathers Lagos. Yet heavy thunderstorms weren’t enough to keep the style crowd from the Emmy Kasbit program, which was actually the standout of day 3 at Lagos Fashion Week.It’s been ten years since Emmanuel Okoro established the brand, and also this compilation, titled Retrospection, was a lyric to his evolution. “I failed to intend to produce something brand new I intended to review the quest thus far as well as what I have actually attained,” he pointed out backstage.
That implied attracting creativity from the repository. A yellow midi outfit including a palm motif that became part of Okoro’s initial Lagos Fashion trend Full week assortment in 2017 was brought back as a digital printing. “Our experts chose to upgrade what we have actually constantly carried out,” he claimed, incorporating that the goal was actually to make these printings much more accessible to today’s audience by recreating them in brand-new shapes and also colorways.
Take Look 26, where he mixed Awkete (a conventional hand-woven textile of Igbo beginnings) along with cotton to make a hybrid trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro launched new digital printings, which were actually made by a tiny community of artisans in India. Standout appears featured a white blazer along with a navy-blue block print dress layered on top, and a males’s hand-dyed indigo tshirt and shorts set. Other opportunities he experimented with different interweaving as well as coloring methods, generating special pieces that will speak to the fashion followers in Nigeria and also abroad.