.When it storms, it pours in Lagos. However heavy electrical storms weren’t good enough to keep the fashion crowd coming from the Emmy Kasbit series, which was the standout of day 3 at Lagos Style Week.It’s been 10 years considering that Emmanuel Okoro started the label, as well as this selection, entitled Recollection, was a lyric to his advancement. “I really did not desire to put out something brand new I would like to assess the experience thus far and also what I have actually accomplished,” he said backstage.
That meant pulling motivation from the older post. A yellow midi gown featuring a palm motif that became part of Okoro’s initial Lagos Style Week selection in 2017 was rejuvenated as an electronic printing. “Our company made a decision to redesign what our team have actually regularly carried out,” he mentioned, adding that the objective was actually to make these prints more obtainable to today’s target market by reproducing them in brand new silhouettes as well as colorways.
Take Look 26, where he mixed Awkete (a traditional hand-woven cloth of Igbo beginnings) along with silk to develop a hybrid trouser.Elsewhere, Okoro launched brand new digital printings, which were brought in by a tiny community of artisans in India. Standout appears included a white sports jacket with a navy-blue block print dress layered on top, as well as a men’s hand-dyed indigo tee shirt as well as shorts established. Other times he played around with different interweaving and coloring methods, creating distinct items that will certainly talk with the fashion trend followers in Nigeria and abroad.