.Observing a three-year hiatus, Lagos Room Programme returned to the Lagos Fashion Week schedule. Adeju Thompson, that won the International Woolmark Prize in 2023, has invested recent couple of years developing his title abroad. That meant showcasing his compilations in primary manner funds featuring Paris, where he most just recently offered spring 2025 in June.
Now, though, he experienced an impulse to find home and admire the area where all of it started.” I wish this to seem like a nice homecoming,” Thompson said in advance of his series. “I take so much inspiration coming from Nigeria and Lagos, it is actually just correct that Lagos gets to enjoy my work very.” He possessed pair of vital objectives for this assortment: to celebrate adapting as well as Lagos style. For Thompson, it was actually an opportunity to take something standard as well as put an experimental or unusual spin on it.
His trademark baggy pants are motivated through typical Yoruba (an ethnic group in Nigeria) workwear, however in this assortment a few of them featured shoelace outlining on the hem, which included a bit of modernity and also womanliness to a garment linked with labor. “I’m combining International codes with Yoruba concept language, as well as transforming factors on their head,” he stated. That also materialized in a hoodie made through a 90-year-old master dyer and artist in the Southern area of Nigeria, that committed hrs to hand illustration art work on the garment.
At first look, it looked like your normal hoodie, but closer examination exposed a degree of detail that can not be actually overlooked. As in previous collections, Adire print—- an ancient indigo-dyeing method made use of by Yoruba girls in south west Nigeria—- was present throughout.” There’s an amount of craftsmanship right here that people don’t expect from the continent,” he said. Beyond that, Thompson was actually developing coming from an area of weakness and also sensitiveness, one thing that’s hard to accomplish in a community where industrial viability usually outweighs creativity.