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📰 Meet Onalaja, a Demi-Couture Label Catering to the 'Women That Luxury Forgot' {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Over the summer, as Kanyinsola Onalaja was preparing for her namesake womenswear brand’s London Fashion Week debut on the official calendar, a fire ripped through her office and warehouse. Nearly all of the demi-couture label’s previous collections, samples, fabrics, archives and sketchbooks were destroyed. Thankfully, Onalaja and her entire team were safe. Rather than throwing in the towel, the British Fashion Council/ Vogue Designer Fashion Fund 2026 finalist revisited an unrealized collection she designed in 2020 entitled “Rising From the Ashes.” Perhaps in a stroke of serendipity, Onalaja reworked her original sketches through the lens of a phoenix, drawing upon her experience with the devastating fire and her courage to start from scratch. The particularly poignant colle...