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Lagos Fashion Week 2026 · Runway show Co-ed

Y'wande

31 looks, shown 28 October 2026 in Lagos. Known this season for appliques / 3D flowers, embroidery, linen.

31Looks
2.2%Of the week's looks
15th / 50Largest show
BurgundyLead colour

The collection, look by look

SS27

Every look in runway order as a column of the colours measured from its garments. Hover or use the arrow keys to read each one; play to walk the show.

Look 1Look 31
BurgundyBlackRedSilverPinkCoralIvoryBeige
Look 11

Look 1 of 31

Striped red and tan woven cropped jacket with tiered mini skirt

Handwoven-look stripes are cut into a sharply cropped, kimono-sleeved jacket with a plunging neckline, while embroidered blooms and red tassels soften the tailoring into something craft-led and contemporary.

Pink 42%Coral 23%Red 19%Burgundy 17%
Shape
boxy · inverted triangle · fitted · relaxed
Pieces
jacket · mini skirt
Fabric
cotton · jacquard
Details
appliques · embroidery · oversized collar · shoulder emphasis
Styling
platforms · matching set · tonal head to toe
Mood
elegant · powerful

What set Y'wande apart

Over-represented in this house's looks compared with the rest of the season.

Appliques / 3D flowers detailEmbroidery detailLinen materialBoxy silhouetteBurgundy / oxblood colourFringed surface

The palette

Share of garment area across 31 looks, measured from the clothes (skin and set excluded).

Silhouettes

  • Straight / tubular42%
  • Boxy39%
  • Oversized32%
  • Asymmetric32%
  • Draped23%

Share of the 31 tagged looks.

What the collection was made of

Share of the 31 looks described by our AI tagger
  • Dress29%
  • Shirt23%
  • Trousers19%
  • Wide-leg trousers19%
  • Tunic16%

Traditions in the collection

Cultural influences →

4 of Y'wande's 31 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).

  • Aso oke · Yoruba · West Africa2 looks

    Home tradition

    “Stiff handwoven-looking cloth with narrow warp stripes in burgundy, tan and cream, typical of strip-woven aso oke, cut into a tailored cropped jacket and skirt.”

  • Adire · Yoruba · West AfricaLook 8

    Home tradition

    “Indigo-grey resist-dyed cotton with irregular hand-drawn swirling bands and pale reserved lines, typical of adire eleko starch-resist patterning, reworked as bold abstract stripes.”

  • Buba and sokoto · Yoruba · West AfricaLook 10

    Home tradition

    “Matching loose hip-length pullover tunic with collarless slit V-neck and wide short sleeves, worn over relaxed same-fabric trousers, echoing buba-and-sokoto two-piece.”

The character of the clothes

Y'wande's clothes were more vivid, warmer and more textured than most of the season.

  • DarkerLighter
  • MutedVividmore vivid than 91% of collections
  • CoolerWarmerwarmer than 85% of collections
  • SmoothTextured & printedmore textured than 77% of collections
  • CasualFormal
  • ClassicDaring
  • ExperimentalWearable

Y'wande against every other house measured so far

Also in Lagos, Spring/Summer 2027

Lagos field notes →
  1. 1Studio Imo58 looksPink
  2. 2Lush Hair47 looksPink
  3. 3Ibilola Ogundipe43 looksCobalt blue
  4. 4Imad Eduso43 looksChocolate brown
  5. 5Bridget Awosika39 looksBlack
  6. 6Nya39 looksWhite

The fortnightly digest

Y'wande, in context

Every house is measured against every other, across every fashion week. The fortnightly digest sends you what moved, and who moved it.