The award-winning London menswear designer married his musician and DJ wife in a ceremony at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, with a theme of “going back to our roots”.
Given the creative backgrounds of both Nicholas Daley and Nabihah Iqbal – Daley is an award-winning menswear designer whose fashion shows are known for their thrilling live performances, while Iqbal is a respected experimental musician, DJ, and broadcaster – it comes as little surprise that they first struck up a conversation over the subject ofThe pair crossed paths all the way back in 2013 at the former Le Baron nightclub in London, when Daley plucked up the courage to chat to Iqbal after she...
The final, breathtaking look took four months to create thanks to its lavish hand-crafted embroidery, but all that heavy embroidery wasn’t necessarily practical when it came to planning an outfit for the afterparty. “I knew I needed something lightweight to change into for the evening, otherwise I would not have survived on the dance floor,” Iqbal says, laughing. “My evening outfit was a gharara, made from pure silk banarsi brocade.
For the evening, Daley then switched into an outfit of his own design, fusing motifs from his childhood in Dundee and his father’s homeland of Jamaica. “I selected a tartan in red, green, and gold, which are important colours within the Rastafarian community and across the Caribbean diaspora,” says Daley, who worked with the Scottish manufacturers Lochcarron of Scotland and Glenisla Kilts to curate the tartan fabric and custom handmade kilt.
“I felt so nervous before the ceremony because there was just a lot of emotion and adrenaline swirling up inside me,” Iqbal remembers. “As soon as I walked into the room, with all my friends and family seated there and Nicholas standing at the end, I could just feel the positive energy in the room. It made me feel so happy.
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