.Following a three-year hiatus, Lagos Space Programme came back to the Lagos Style Week schedule. Adeju Thompson, that gained the International Woolmark Award in 2023, has actually spent the past couple of years building his name abroad. That implied showcasing his compilations in primary fashion trend resources consisting of Paris, where he most lately provided spring 2025 in June.
Currently, however, he felt a desire to come home and also admire the urban area where it all started.” I desire this to believe that a wonderful homecoming,” Thompson stated before his series. “I take so much inspiration coming from Nigeria as well as Lagos, it’s merely ideal that Lagos comes to experience my job extremely.” He had two essential purposes for this collection: to celebrate adapting and Lagos fashion. For Thompson, it was an option to take something standard as well as placed an experimental or non-traditional twist on it.
His signature baggy trousers are motivated by standard Yoruba (an ethnic group in Nigeria) workwear, however in this particular assortment a number of all of them included lace detailing on the piping, which incorporated a bit of originality and womanhood to a garment connected with effort. “I’m mixing International codes with Yoruba layout foreign language, and transforming things on their head,” he stated. That additionally took form in a hoodie created by a 90-year-old professional dyer and also musician in the Southern region of Nigeria, that devoted hrs to palm sketch art work on the garment.
At first glance, it resembled your typical hoodie, yet closer inspection revealed a degree of particular that can not be disregarded. As in previous selections, Adire print—- an old indigo-dyeing strategy utilized through Yoruba females in southwest Nigeria—- was present throughout.” There is actually a degree of craftsmanship below that folks don’t get out of the continent,” he stated. Beyond that, Thompson was actually making coming from an area of vulnerability and sensitivity, something that is actually challenging to do in an ecosystem where office stability commonly outweighs imagination.