A Review on fashion and style: Spring stitches signature mark
Civilization has brought with it the evolution of fashion over decades and centuries. It has led to the gradual development of the fashion industry to a point where style and trends have become a buzzword.
African fashion is evolving and gradually gaining prominence in the world. Now we see African fashion being showcased in major fashion events around the world; London Fashion Week, and The Brooklyn Museum. Now we have Aficao Fashion Week in London, Afro Fashion Week in Milan and NY even hosted an exhibition called African Fashion Week.
So this only means that African fashion is growing internationally. But you also need to identify the role of style in how far African fashion has gone across the world.
Styling puts together clothing and accessories to create an aesthetically pleasing look for an individual or situation. For exquisite styling, the designer works with the customers, sharing ideas and contributions to create the perfect look.
During styling, fashion creators make dresses that are well-tailored to fit the needs and expectations of the customers. They pay attention to the customer’s style descriptions and with precision, follow them up. Styling enables a creative collaboration between the dressmakers and the customers and this always results in the birth of fresh creative designs.
This is what eventually grows into a trend.
It allows fashion enthusiasts to express themselves fashionably in such a way that you can tell their personality from their outfits.
Plus, it reflects your energy, strength and taste. It helps you make a fashion statement about yourself. When you’re able to control your fashion narrative, it subconsciously builds your confidence and the way you feel about yourself, because you know that your outfit influences how people see you and what they think about your personality.
So, knowing that you’re socially and fashionably right, gives you the confidence to approach social matters or relate with anyone.
This relatability is what the Oge Collection aims to achieve.
Oge Collection is Augustina’s 2020 release through her brand, Spring Stiches. It contains various fashion styles that resonate with people. The designs are elegant, brilliant and creatively crafted, with a blend of African vibe and western combination.
This outfit is from the Oge Collection 2020 and you can see the element of brilliant styling. It is a combination of two colours in the shape of large well-pronounced stripes. It has a light shade of brown, which seems to be the dominant colour, with stripes of burgundy.
The hue is a good and attractive blend that agrees together. The blouse has a short sleeve with a puffy edge just below the elbow. Now, the puffy edge of the sleeve shows an attractive style and fashion consciousness. It also looks like a special design that took a copious amount of thinking and perfecting.
The design at the waist area is very thoughtful; a fitting waistline with well-crafted beautiful pleats that seem to spread out. The skirt is almost tight fitting, which seems to be well tailored to follow the woman’s form or accentuate the feminine beauty of a woman.
Truth be told, this dress gives a moral vibe and you can see that it communicates the seriousness of a woman. It seems like the kind of dress that will resonate more with a woman who would want to be taken seriously.
This dress also gives an office vibe with a full shape and beautiful silhouette. The dress could be worn to the office, it could also be worn at cooperate parties and it will go well in dinner and cocktail parties. The Oge collection designs communicate not just elegant style and fancy designs, but interact or minister to the social needs of the fashion customers.
This dress is another beautiful design from the Oge collection. It is an elegant piece of work that is completely dotted in brown. It’s a sleeveless dress, which reveals feminine beauty and showcases a brilliant style of design.
It has a puffy design at the shoulders which connects to a beautifully sagging neckline which rests at the upper part of the chest area. The waist area is of a more slim fit which slightly expands at the waist.
The pants are a loose fitting that shows volume and style. It flows in a regular and even form, all the way from the waist to the ankles, where it would cover most of the feet – you could say that the ankle area is in the resemblance of a boot-cut.
It is a dress with a confident poise and a gallant bearing. It communicates a ‘standing on business’ vibe stylishly. It’s like being formal and still being able to slay. It is the kind of dress that will resonate with an office lady. The dress tells you that though you’re a woman who is a go-getter, still, you still love to move in style and still be able to command respect.
This dress will fit more with golden accessories and generally with jewels.
It is a dress that should be worn by a woman who knows her intelligence, accepts it and is ready to fluent it, as she forges her way through; in a world that is generally regarded as a man’s world.
It’s the kind of dress that should be worn to high-profile social events, because of its confidence poise, and it could also be worn to a church, office, cooperate parties and other exclusive entertaining events.
This is another unique garment from the Oge Collection 2020. This collection is full of interesting and creative designs, well-crafted and suited for certain functions and events.
The dress gives a wifey vibe in a homely kind of way.
It is an all-flowing gown. The dominant colour is a light shade of lemon, with a minor black and other colour accent at the neck area and the head-tie.
The material attached to the neck area seems to be different from be material of the dress, which is quite a good style and should flow in line with several fashion lovers and customers. The Ankara material has colour accents of yellow, blue and brown.
The head tie is also of the same material attached at the neck and the wrist, and this shows thoughtfulness in crafting the design.
The lemon hue material flows to the floor and it would cover the feet completely.
The black sleeves extend like a cape and attached to the lemon material.
dress reveals a distinct personality when it is worn. It shows a quality of a person who want to stand out from the crowd. It is a unique fashion outfit and it will be even more unique when you step out to a social function among the sea of people.
The dress also communicates religiously and shows a blend of your moral standards. It could have been bland if it had just been a single colour, but the fact that the designer blended two colours that agree, and also the attachment of the Ankara to spice it up made it very fashionable, attractive and resonating.
It is a dress that would resonate more in the northern part of Nigeria.
This dress could be worn mostly at religious gatherings, and since it has a homely vibe, it could be worn at home while entertaining guests. It could also be worn to political events and it will best fit for office attire on a Friday.
This dress is crafted for a woman who is deep in her sense of person; how she looks and how she wants people to perceive her to be. A woman who is confident in her skin and makes her own choices.
Spring Stiches by Augustina Temitope Abisuga outdid themselves with this collection. The portrayal of originality and creativity is really commendable. These are design pieces that hold great potential of being in vogue for a very very long time.
