.Observing a three-year interim, Lagos Space Programme came back to the Lagos Fashion trend Week schedule. Adeju Thompson, that won the International Woolmark Prize in 2023, has actually invested recent few years constructing his name abroad. That indicated showcasing his collections in primary manner fundings including Paris, where he most recently presented spring season 2025 in June. Currently, though, he really felt an impulse to follow home and admire the urban area where it all began." I want this to think that a great homecoming," Thompson mentioned in advance of his program. "I take a great deal motivation coming from Nigeria and also Lagos, it's merely right that Lagos gets to appreciate my job very." He possessed two essential purposes for this collection: to celebrate adapting as well as Lagos manner. For Thompson, it was actually a chance to take something traditional and also put a speculative or unusual spin on it. His signature baggy slacks are motivated by conventional Yoruba (a nationality in Nigeria) workwear, but in this compilation a number of all of them included shoelace detailing on the piping, which added a bit of modernity and also femininity to a garment connected with effort. "I'm blending European codes with Yoruba style foreign language, and also switching traits on their scalp," he said. That also materialized in a hoodie created by a 90-year-old professional dyer and performer in the Southern location of Nigeria, who committed hrs to palm drawing art pieces on the garment. In the beginning look, it resembled your typical hoodie, however closer inspection showed an amount of information that can't be dismissed. As in previous collections, Adire print---- an old indigo-dyeing approach used through Yoruba girls in southwest Nigeria---- existed throughout." There is actually a degree of workmanship below that folks do not get out of the continent," he claimed. Past that, Thompson was developing coming from a spot of susceptability as well as sensitivity, one thing that is actually challenging to carry out in an ecological community where commercial feasibility usually outweighs creative thinking.