.When it rainfalls, it pours in Lagos. However heavy electrical storms weren’t good enough to always keep the fashion crowd coming from the Emmy Kasbit series, which was the standout of day 3 at Lagos Fashion Week.It’s been 10 years since Emmanuel Okoro established the label, and also this collection, titled Retrospection, was an ode to his evolution. “I didn’t desire to produce something new I intended to reassess the experience thus far and what I have actually obtained,” he mentioned backstage.
That meant attracting creativity from the older post. A yellow midi outfit featuring a palm theme that belonged to Okoro’s very first Lagos Fashion trend Full week compilation in 2017 was rejuvenated as an electronic print. “Our experts decided to upgrade what our team’ve regularly performed,” he stated, including that the target was actually to make these printings more accessible to today’s viewers by recreating all of them in brand-new silhouettes and also colorways.
Take Appear 26, where he blended Awkete (a conventional hand-woven textile of Igbo origins) along with silk to generate a crossbreed trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro launched brand-new electronic printings, which were brought in by a small area of craftsmens in India. Standout looks included a white sports jacket along with a navy-blue block printing outfit layered on the top, as well as a men’s hand-dyed indigo tee and also pants specified. Various other times he played around with various interweaving and dyeing strategies, producing unique items that will definitely contact the fashion followers in Nigeria as well as abroad.