.When it rainfalls, it pours in Lagos. Yet heavy electrical storms weren’t sufficient to keep the manner group from the Emmy Kasbit series, which was the standout of day 3 at Lagos Fashion trend Week.It’s been actually 10 years due to the fact that Emmanuel Okoro founded the company, as well as this compilation, labelled Memoir, was a lyric to his evolution. “I failed to want to produce one thing new I intended to assess the journey up until now and also what I have achieved,” he stated backstage.
That indicated attracting ideas from the archive. A yellow midi gown featuring a hand concept that belonged to Okoro’s 1st Lagos Manner Week compilation in 2017 was rejuvenated as a digital print. “Our team made a decision to redesign what we’ve consistently done,” he claimed, adding that the objective was to make these printings much more available to today’s target market through reproducing them in brand-new silhouettes and also colorways.
Take Look 26, where he blended Awkete (a typical hand-woven fabric of Igbo beginnings) along with cotton to generate a hybrid trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro offered new digital printings, which were brought in by a small area of craftsmans in India. Standout looks featured a white colored sports jacket with a navy-blue block print dress layered on top, as well as a men’s hand-dyed indigo shirt as well as shorts prepared. Other times he experimented with various interweaving and also coloring procedures, producing unique pieces that are going to speak to the fashion fans in Nigeria and abroad.