
Menswear Fashion Designer, Ikire
Jones adopts a creative way of storytelling that reflects its state of mind
through clothing. The brand owned by Wale Oyejide releases its Spring /Summer
collection which features interesting visual fabrics that each have a story to
tell.
The collection also references controversial
issues like colonization, slave trade, child slavery and the missing
girl-children from Chibok, the collection is quite an emotional one, properly
executed with fabric, however, the collection is not deeply rooted in designs.
“The youngest of us were
forcefully taken from our classrooms, spirited away by the ideologues who
believed only in what they could wrench from the praying hands of people who
sought peace elsewhere. When the virus swept through our town, it dragged us from
the embraces of our mothers arms, and into the sterile sadness of hospital
wards that could not conceal us from the dark. Meanwhile, at the edges of the
Mediterranean, some of us were washed-up on the shores. Separated from homes
that were miles across the desert. Separated from families that were miles
beneath the waves.
We are the children of migration. Some of us were the victims of
cruel circumstance and crueler men. Many of us were taken before our time. But
we are here. And from the skies our voices will guide you, if you listen. As we
forever sing.”- Wale Oyejide for S/S 2016 and Other Stories By Our
Stolen Children.








Photo Credit
Photography: Rog Walker
Models: Steven Obisanya, Thierry Augustin, James Jean and Kamau Austin
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