In a season often defined by spectacle and speed, IAMISIGO offered something altogether different at Copenhagen Fashion Week SS26: a still point. Dual Mandate, the brand’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, unfolded like a ritual—slow, deliberate, and deeply meditative. Designed by Bubu Ogisi, the Nigerian label reimagined fashion as energy architecture—clothing as a conduit between seen and unseen realms.

Reframing a colonial doctrine into a personal and spiritual proposition, Ogisi turned the “dual mandate” from control into consciousness: to protect and to perceive. Each garment became a layered field of vibration—earthbound yet transcendent. The collection moved far beyond adornment; it invited presence.

Materials were not just ethically sourced, but energetically charged. Cotton from Uganda and Kenya, raffia and jute from Nigeria, and sisal from Tanzania grounded the wearer. Glass, metals, and plastics—used sparingly—served as amplifiers. These were shaped through ancestral techniques: weaving, knotting, chainmail forging, and glass blowing—all honored as living technologies rather than lost crafts.

IAMISIGO’s silhouettes echoed this duality: raw fiber-wrapped forms stood beside metallic-structured shapes, offering a visceral dialogue between softness and strength, vulnerability and defense. The collection held no need for ornament; its energy spoke louder than embellishment.

The color palette pulled directly from elemental sources—sienna, rust, moss, sun-faded ochre—pierced occasionally by reflective flashes of metal or translucent synthetics. On the runway, models moved with ceremonial poise, each step a meditation, each look a question: Is this armor? Is this offering? Is it both?

Ogisi didn’t propose a future shaped by digital novelty or algorithmic aesthetics. Instead, Dual Mandate recalled a future already known by the body—a future remembered through the wisdom of ancestors and the power of material intention.

IAMISIGO’s SS26 show wasn’t just a collection; it was a reclamation. A quiet, potent refusal to separate fashion from feeling, or form from frequency. With this offering, Bubu Ogisi asked us not just to look—but to attune.