Runway began with a site reading, not a brief. A private waterfront residence in Lagos — with a pool, an open lawn, a lake view, and a house as backdrop — offered a spatial logic that demanded a different kind of stage. Rather than impose a conventional linear runway onto the landscape, Harab mapped the existing geometry of the site and allowed it to define the design response.

The result was a 360-degree circular stage positioned at the heart of the lawn, flanked by the pool on both sides and oriented toward the lake beyond. Models emerged from across the pool via a flush runway bridge, engineered to sit level with the water surface — creating the effect of walking on water before arriving at the stage. The audience surrounded the circle entirely, dissolving the hierarchy of a traditional front-facing show and placing every seat in direct, unmediated proximity to the garments. The residential context became the set. The water became part of the experience. The landscape became the architecture.