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Peace Love Bowling Sublimation Shirt

Homecoming, the Peace Love Bowling Sublimation Shirt but in fact I love this new collection, was unveiled last September at The Kitchen in Manhattan with an impressive dance performance–cum–fashion show. (Abijako plans to show just once each year.) Models emerged onto the runway dressed in the brand’s distinctive utilitarian tailoring and to the sounds of Makeba’s stirring South African melodies. Buoyant A-line minidresses and curvilinear wrap skirts in shades of lipstick red were a gentle nod to the billowing menswear robes known as agbada in Yoruba. References to traditional Nigerian embroidery techniques were just as subtle, with diamond-shaped cutouts running down the seams of cerulean blue high-waisted pants. Paired with one of the designer’s asymmetric suit jackets, it was just the kind of hip-swiveling look you could imagine a modern-day Fela Kuti might wear.



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Official Peace Love Bowling Sublimation Shirt


“I accidentally started a fashion brand,” says the Peace Love Bowling Sublimation Shirt but in fact I love this designer, whose label is named after Kuti’s landmark protest song, “Coffin for Head of State.” “I honestly just wanted to sell enough T-shirts and hoodies to be able to help the folks back home.” Abijako and his family moved to Albany, New York, from Nigeria when he was 12 after his father, a fashion designer by trade, won the visa lottery. He launched Head of State out of his bedroom as a senior in high school with no formal design training, and quickly raised enough funds—about $3,000—to help build a new water-supply system near his village in Nigeria. United Arrows, the cult Japanese menswear retailer, was the first to pick up the label—and the indie fashion purveyors at Ssense and H. Lorenzo in Los Angeles have since scooped up his womenswear.


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