.When it rains, it pours in Lagos. However hefty thunderstorms weren’t enough to keep the manner crowd coming from the Emmy Kasbit series, which was actually the standout of day three at Lagos Fashion trend Week.It’s been 10 years because Emmanuel Okoro founded the brand, and also this compilation, titled Retrospection, was actually a lyric to his progression. “I didn’t want to put out something brand-new I wanted to reflect on the experience thus far and what I have accomplished,” he said backstage.
That meant attracting inspiration from the store. A yellow midi gown including a palm motif that became part of Okoro’s 1st Lagos Style Week assortment in 2017 was actually brought back as an electronic printing. “Our experts chose to redesign what our company’ve regularly performed,” he said, including that the objective was actually to create these printings much more easily accessible to today’s reader through reproducing all of them in brand-new silhouettes and also colorways.
Take Look 26, where he combined Awkete (a standard hand-woven cloth of Igbo origins) with cotton to produce a hybrid trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro offered brand new digital prints, which were actually brought in through a tiny community of craftsmans in India. Standout looks consisted of a white sports jacket along with a navy-blue block printing gown layered on top, and a guys’s hand-dyed indigo t shirt as well as pants set. Various other opportunities he experimented with various weaving as well as coloring approaches, generating distinct items that are going to talk to the manner fans in Nigeria and also abroad.