.When it rains, it pours in Lagos. But heavy thunderstorms weren’t enough to always keep the fashion group from the Emmy Kasbit program, which was actually the standout of day 3 at Lagos Fashion trend Week.It’s been 10 years considering that Emmanuel Okoro started the label, and this selection, entitled Retrospection, was a lyric to his advancement. “I didn’t intend to produce something new I wanted to reassess the adventure so far and also what I have actually achieved,” he claimed backstage.
That meant drawing ideas from the older post. A yellow midi dress featuring a hand theme that belonged to Okoro’s first Lagos Manner Week collection in 2017 was revived as a digital print. “Our experts decided to revamp what our team have actually consistently performed,” he stated, including that the goal was actually to create these prints more accessible to today’s audience by reproducing all of them in new contours and also colorways.
Take Look 26, where he blended Awkete (a standard hand-woven fabric of Igbo beginnings) with silk to generate a crossbreed trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro presented brand-new digital printings, which were actually brought in through a small area of artisans in India. Standout looks consisted of a white colored blazer along with a navy-blue block printing outfit layered on top, and also a males’s hand-dyed indigo t-shirt and pants set. Various other opportunities he experimented with different interweaving and also dyeing strategies, producing special pieces that are going to speak with the fashion trend followers in Nigeria and abroad.