IAMISIGO’s SS27 Collection Turns African Craft and Nature Into Wearable Art

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IAMISIGO’s “Sacred Ecologies” collection explores how clothing, the human body and the land connect. Designer Bubu Ogisi draws on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novel “Wizard of the Crow” and the Luba lukasa memory board to consider how environmental knowledge and cultural memory can be carried through materials and the body. The collection’s sculptural pieces and presentation, created with artist Hubert Crabières, treat clothing as both a wearable form and a record of place. Models interact with a fabric landscape installation, echoing the way a reader traces stories across a memory board. Sustainability is central to the collection. It uses reclaimed and plant-derived materials sourced across Africa, including banana fibre, cotton, sisal, recycled aluminium and glass. Offcuts and leftover yarn are repurposed, while handwork preserves the marks of the making process.

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