This collection, Venus as a Boy, is about reimagination. We take our name for the collection from the Bjork song of the same title, which in of itself points towards a reimagination of the idea of Venus, where Venus herself was a Roman reimagination of Aphrodite.
Day of Victory
Spring-Summer 2024
SS24
Show
As Casablanca’s eye wanders in the ever-curious search for beauty, keenly observing and always
eager to find a colour, a moment, an expression of a time and place that mystifies and invigorates,
this season, we turn our focus towards the inexhaustible magnetism of Nigeria.
Much alike the series of colours that shift and alter through the Saharan region, changing guise and varying
in tone and atmosphere in different cities, towns, countries, representative of the rich exchanges across cultural
disciplines in African art, music and film, we sought to explore a new meeting-point in our collection – a
confluence of culture and philosophy between Casablanca and our vision of Nigeria –
a representation of a mutually shared optimism for a future that Nigeria propels forward for the world.
It is Nigeria’s vitality – movements set forward by the youth, and a key cultural history that stimulates a push
towards an abundant future, we hope to highlight an admiration and reflection of our own desire for
this revolutionary growth brightening and expanding, globally.
Credits
Thank you to our Casablanca© team for making this show possible.
Founder & Creative Director: Charaf Tajer @charaftajer
Art Director: Steve Grimes @steviegrimes
Production by: La Mode En Images @lamodeenimages
Show styled by: Helena Tejedor @helenatejedor & Ola Ebiti @olaoluebiti
Casting by: Midland Agency
Make-up by: Bryant Artists @bryantartists
Hair by: Cyndia Harvey @cyndiaharvey
Show publicity by: KCD Paris
Press by: Purple PR US & UK