.Adhering to a three-year interim, Lagos Room Program returned to the Lagos Fashion Week schedule. Adeju Thompson, who won the International Woolmark Prize in 2023, has actually devoted the past few years constructing his name abroad. That meant showcasing his assortments in major fashion trend funds featuring Paris, where he very most just recently offered spring season 2025 in June.
Right now, however, he felt a desire to follow home and also pay homage to the urban area where all of it started.” I want this to feel like a pleasant homecoming,” Thompson claimed before his program. “I take a great deal ideas from Nigeria and Lagos, it’s simply right that Lagos reaches relish my job too.” He had 2 vital goals for this assortment: to celebrate adapting and also Lagos fashion. For Thompson, it was actually a chance to take one thing standard as well as placed an experimental or even unusual twist on it.
His signature baggy trousers are encouraged through typical Yoruba (a nationality in Nigeria) workwear, but in this collection some of them featured shoelace detailing on the piping, which included a hint of originality and womanhood to a garment related to labor. “I’m blending European codes along with Yoruba style language, as well as turning traits on their head,” he claimed. That also materialized in a hoodie created by a 90-year-old professional dyer as well as musician in the Southern region of Nigeria, who devoted hrs to hand sketch art pieces on the garment.
At first glimpse, it resembled your typical hoodie, yet closer evaluation revealed a level of information that can not be actually neglected. As in previous collections, Adire print—- an old indigo-dyeing strategy made use of by Yoruba girls in south west Nigeria—- was present throughout.” There’s a degree of workmanship below that folks don’t expect from the continent,” he pointed out. Past that, Thompson was developing from a location of susceptibility as well as level of sensitivity, one thing that is actually challenging to do in an environment where office stability frequently outweighs creativity.