Ugo Monye

33 of Ugo Monye's 37 looks draw on a specific dress or craft tradition, as read from the photographs. The house is based in Nigeria (inferred from the fashion week it shows at).

• Buba and sokoto · Yoruba · West Africa22 looks

  Home tradition

  “Matching hip-length round-neck buba tunic with front placket over loose, wide sokoto trousers in the same fabric.”

• Agbada · Yoruba · West Africa16 looks

  Home tradition

  “Voluminous wide-sleeved floor-length overrobe folded over the shoulders, worn over a tunic and trousers; layered metallic tiers rework the classic agbada.”

• Fila cap · Yoruba · West Africa11 looks

  Home tradition

  “Tall, stiff brimless cap with a folded-over peaked crown, the characteristic Yoruba fila shape, in a solid brown fabric.”

• Aso oke · West African (unspecified) · West Africa7 looks

  Own region

  “Narrow-strip handwoven-look cloth in vertical bands with supplementary-weft geometric diamonds and bowtie motifs in orange and cream; could be aso oke or Mande/Senegalese strip weave.”

• Coral bead necklaces · Edo · West Africa2 looks

  Home tradition

  “Long double-strand coral-red bead necklace and a stacked coral bead wrist cuff, typical of Edo and Yoruba ceremonial coral regalia.”

• Gele · Yoruba · West Africa2 looks

  Home tradition

  “Stiff satin cloth wrapped tightly around the head with a sculpted, gathered knot flaring at one side, like a gele tie, made in tonal cream satin.”

• Injiri / madras wrapper cloth · Nigeria · West AfricaLook 11

  Home tradition

  “Red-green and teal-green madras-type checks worn as stacked waist wrappers over a long skirt, the way Nigerian men wear injiri/george madras.”

• Agbada chest embroidery · Yoruba · West AfricaLook 32

  Home tradition

  “Densely stitched rectangular panel at the V-neck front, positioned like the traditional agbada chest embroidery panel.”