TOPE ADENOLA
While many fashion houses are creating sophisticated and edgy work and playful ready-to-wear collections, Orange Culture is doing something entirely different, focusing more on a typical fashionable life of a Lagos fisherman in their latest collection.
The collection tagged as Etched Journey tells an emotional story between an onlooker, a fisherman and his canoe. Blending the collection with the rawness between the journey of a fisherman in Lagos and his activities under the Third Mainland Bridge.
As explained by the creative director, 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.”
Flip through the gallery to see the full pieces in the collection (Photos via BN):
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