Orange Culture Spring/Summer 2016 Collection - “Etched Journey”

Creative Designer, Orange Culture releases her official lookbook for Spring/Summer 2016 collection. This Collection were showcased at Pitti Immagine‘s “Constellation Africa“.The designer took a childhood memory and pressing desire to learn more, and combined it with his ability to translate stories and journeys of even the most obscure of professions - fishermen, through clothes.

According to Adebayo Oke-Lawal: “Growing up in the metropolitan city of Lagos that was constantly nestled in chaos, vitality and a spiral of fleeting hopes, it was almost impossible to catch a moment beautified by its silence alone. Everyone always seemed in a hurry to somewhere, for something. But I remember driving past Third Mainland Bridge often with my family, my head pressed against the cold glass alive with dew from the AC, staring out into the sea as fishermen rowed their canoes alone at even the loneliest of hours.

The solemnity of that still beauty rattled me. The elegance of their arm strides saturated in the euphoric concept of gracefulness carried around by people who knew what belonged to them would surely come to them. It stirred something inside of me. I wondered what they were thinking while they stood, legs muscled and firm on the wood, waiting for their capture, or as their lips cracked as they sighted something I couldn’t see. The universe came to them in those moments, and on descending the bridge, I constantly felt robbed of an indefinable beauty.”

The shoes were inspired by the slip-ons fishermen wear, and the bags designed in collaboration with Nigerian brand O’eclat and the Treefairfax brand.

Photo Credit

Photography: Tope Horpload (Instagram: @HorploadWorks)
Makeup: DeyDeySoSo (Instagram: @DeDeySoSo)
Hair: Queen Darling
Creative Direction: Adebayo Oke-Lawal (Instagram: @OrangeCultureng)
Models: Kwen & Mannie

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