Sadiq Adams didn’t design a collection. He started a conversation; and it’s one fashion has needed for a long time.
Growing up in Lagos, creative director Sadiq Adams knew two kinds of beauty. The Asooke on a ceremonial day, the agbada, the iro and buba; fabric that told you something sacred was happening. And the perfectly cut suit, the garment that said something about who you were choosing to become. For most of his life, those two aesthetics lived in separate rooms.
“Lovechild” is what happens when you finally open the door between them.
Remy Rewane’s Fall/Winter 2026 collection is named for the child born between opposing worlds; between inheritance and invention, the ceremonial and the contemporary, what we are given and what we choose. It is a collection that refuses to make you pick a side, and that refusal feels quietly radical in a fashion landscape that has spent years borrowing African aesthetics without fully understanding them.
The fabrics alone tell the story. Asooke, Damask, worsted wool, deadstock satin, deadstock velvet, organza, deconstructed pre-owned denim; each material carries its own memory, labor, and cultural weight. Adams handles them with intention, weaving in Aroko symbols as visual language and reimagining the Egungun, a representation of ancestral presence, first in ceremonial Damask, then in upcycled denim. The fabric changes. The spirit stays.
Sustainability here is construction philosophy, not marketing copy. Patchwork coats are built from Asooke offcuts. Pre-owned denim is reconstructed rather than replaced. Every hand-finished, hand-knitted, hand-painted technique is deliberately slow; a resistance to the speed that makes so much fashion forgettable. The collection’s use of biodegradable fabrics reflects a belief that what we make should be able to return to the earth without harming it.
Running through all of it is love; literal and symbolic. “Love Is The Remedy” is stitched into the collection as genuine conviction, a belief in empathy’s power to resist division. The Arewa knot, embroidered throughout, is a symbol of unity that spans African traditions. These are not decorative choices. They are arguments.
“Lovechild” is specific; rooted in Yoruba ceremony, Lagos life, West African craft, and that specificity is exactly what makes it universal. It speaks to anyone who has ever held their inheritance in one hand and their ambition in the other and wondered if there was a way to carry both.
There is. And it looks like this.
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Creative Director: Sadiq Adams
Models: Sabina, Moyosore, Bashiru, Zikorah
Photo: Wilson Onwuka / Eniola Ogedengbe
Video: The Oyagha
Hair: Nifemi Larj
Casting: SA casting
Styling/Production: The Connundrum Company