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Lisa Folawiyo has released the lookbook for her Autumn/Winter 2018 collection. The collection was first unveiled at an exclusive presentation at RELE Art Gallery tagged Texture, Chaos and Systems and the silhouettes, volumes and palettes are truly phenomenal. Known for her incredible mix and match technique with colours and embellishments, the designer plays with a filigree of pleats, silk, and paint-drop prints to perfect each design like an artwork. While the collection is a shift from the brand’s signature prints, eye-catching fabrics and embellishments, this latest offering, embraces femininity in...

This collection is a rather personal story, according to the Creative Director, Gabriel who is one of the Lagos Fashion Week (Fashion Focus) finalist showcasing his SS ’19 later this year. Reliving moments from his childhood, his journey through finding purpose, subtle influences, and inspirations that stuck. Significant childhood expressions such as playing with a car tyre, deconstruction and remodeling of garments, a trip to the village, playing by the river bank surrounded by beautiful bamboo trees, making triangular shaped kite, wearing platform sandals and shoes for elevation, mind-traveling, also...

Call it recycling, call it revolution, one thing we are sure of is fashion style never dies, okay; we could say the style faded or let us say we outgrew them. We will be taking a walk down memory lane with the Iro and Buba, that is the traditional Yoruba women attire, though it is not known to the Yoruba alone anymore as other African tribes have embraced this fashion style. Growing up, we saw our mothers look good in this style, that is the round cut neck, oversized hand,...