Tolu Coker collection driven by her Yoruba roots
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00:13 Irak Bada is what the collection is called.
00:16 And it means redemption in Yoruba.
00:18 And it's about going back to oneself.
00:21 And often there's a loss of something
00:22 to go back to something, to regain something.
00:25 And that's what I wanted to celebrate.
00:27 I think sometimes there can be a bit of--
00:30 I think a bit of controversy around having
00:32 an all-black cast.
00:33 For me, it was really important.
00:35 It was important to do the story that I was telling justice.
00:38 And I think sometimes we don't understand that--
00:40 we don't understand the importance
00:42 or the significance of the stories, the bodies that
00:46 carry the stories.
00:47 And I think for me, that was what was significant.
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