.Following a three-year interim, Lagos Space Programme came back to the Lagos Style Week routine. Adeju Thompson, that succeeded the International Woolmark Prize in 2023, has actually spent recent couple of years constructing his title abroad. That implied showcasing his selections in major manner financings including Paris, where he most just recently presented spring season 2025 in June.
Now, however, he experienced an impulse ahead home as well as pay homage to the metropolitan area where it all began.” I prefer this to seem like a great homecoming,” Thompson pointed out in advance of his show. “I take so much inspiration from Nigeria and Lagos, it is actually simply best that Lagos gets to have my job too.” He possessed two essential purposes for this collection: to celebrate tailoring and also Lagos style. For Thompson, it was actually an option to take something traditional and also placed a speculative or even unique twist on it.
His signature baggy trousers are actually motivated through typical Yoruba (an ethnic group in Nigeria) workwear, yet in this particular collection some of them featured shoelace detailing on the piping, which incorporated a hint of modernity as well as womanliness to a garment associated with effort. “I’m combining International codes with Yoruba concept foreign language, and transforming things on their head,” he pointed out. That also materialized in a hoodie created by a 90-year-old master dyer as well as performer in the Southern region of Nigeria, who devoted hrs to hand drawing art work on the garment.
In the beginning look, it resembled your traditional hoodie, but closer inspection uncovered a degree of detail that can’t be dismissed. As in previous collections, Adire printing—- a historical indigo-dyeing method used through Yoruba females in southwest Nigeria—- was present throughout.” There’s a degree of craftsmanship below that individuals don’t anticipate from the continent,” he pointed out. Beyond that, Thompson was designing from an area of susceptibility and also sensitivity, something that is actually hard to carry out in a community where commercial feasibility frequently outweighs innovation.