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From the Sky to the Earth To You: Earth & Sky by Banke Kuku
With Earth & Sky, her Spring/Summer 2027 collection, Banke Kuku turns to nature’s most essential cycle: the sky gives rain, the rain feeds the earth, and the earth gives back. Reimagining the water cycle as a circle of life, the collection celebrates the abundance that flows from it.
Earth & Sky is built around seven prints in three families. The Sky family is led by the hero print, Bougainvillea Sky, with watercolour bougainvillea, bees, butterflies and birds drifting across a turquoise ground, alongside Dove Sky and Daybreak Sky.
The Earth family, Yellow Trumpet and Flower Bud, draws on flowering plants such as Costus spectabilis. The Rain family pairs Raindrop, a glossy, near-photographic print set against the softness of the watercolours, with the Kuku Monogram in fresh colourways. Sky prints are finished with hand-embroidered clouds and raindrops on flowing kaftans and kimono robes.
Speaking on the inspiration, Creative Director Banke Kuku shares:
“I never start with a sketch. I start with a feeling, and for Earth & Sky, that feeling was abundance. This year I became a mother for the first time, and everywh...