Fashion can do more than dress the body. It can preserve a history, carry the knowledge of a community, and offer a different way of looking at the world around us. With Sacred Ecologies, I.AM.ISIGO brings these ideas into focus, exploring the relationship between clothing, land and the cultural knowledge passed down through generations.

Founded by Nigerian designer Bubu Ogisi, I.AM.ISIGO has built its practice around African textile traditions, experimental materials and contemporary wearable art. For Spring/Summer 27, the Lagos-based fashion house extends this exploration into the relationship between people and their environment, asking what it means to create with an understanding of where materials come from and the histories they carry.

Now hosting a resee at Temple Muse, Sacred Ecologies offers a closer look at a collection that places African craftsmanship at the centre of a wider conversation about fashion's future.

When Craft Becomes a Language

Presented at Copenhagen Fashion Week in August 2026, Sacred Ecologies draws on indigenous knowledge systems, including the lukasa, a memory board associated with the Luba people of Central Africa, traditionally used to record historical, political and genealogical knowledge through carved wood and beads. The collection also references the ornate adornments of Asante royal heralds, exploring how objects and the body can carry stories, history and identity. These influences appear in sculptural garments, intricate beadwork, and distinctive forms.

This interest in memory extends to the materials themselves. Banana fibre from Uganda, sisal from Tanzania, cotton and wooden beads from Nigeria, alongside recycled glass and aluminium, feature throughout the collection. Through weaving, crochet and other hand techniques, Bubu Ogisi brings these materials together, incorporating leftover yarn and fabric offcuts into new designs. The collection places African artisanal knowledge at the heart of contemporary fashion, considering not only what materials can become, but the people, places and traditions behind them.

With Sacred Ecologies, I.AM.ISIGO continues to demonstrate the possibilities of contemporary African fashion when cultural heritage, material experimentation, and craftsmanship inform one another.

The collection invites a closer look at the work behind each garment, from the fibres and techniques used to the histories that inspire its forms. It is an approach to design that looks to the past without leaving the present behind, giving indigenous knowledge a place in the ongoing conversation about what fashion can become.

 Explore I.AM.ISIGO SS27 at Temple Muse.