Wale Oyejide S/S 2016 - Other Stories By Our Stolen Children.

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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.

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

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