Event Curators who '...undress black music & fashion' for institutions like London College of Fashion, the British Library & the V&A. Insta: union_black_uk
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The very thing @rihanna & @SavageXFenty are rightly praised for are the things established brands that DOMINATED the market worked to stave off: inclusion; reflecting physical & identity diversity w/in the promotion & sale of their products.
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Aspirationally reflecting the consumer market back unto itself.
So now those brands watch from the sidelines as beauty & sensuality - as exhibited on the physical frames of the women, men, gender non-conforming, petite, full-figured who contributed to this show - remind us all
... that fabric & design doesn't recognises categorisation. Fabric & design simply allow those categorised to BE and DO. To act on lust this & prior collections toy with.
@rihanna & @SavageXFenty - like @fentybeauty: FUBU.
And what a BEAUTIFUL *US* that is!
Fantastic THREAD on the casualisation of transphobia w/in popular entertainment; its use in defining the 'norms' of cis beauty, complexion & physicality; the singular & combined abuse of categories to denigrate girls & women.
Culturally propelled by lies, language & jealousies.
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Hand work being done on Rihanna’s 2014 CFDA naked dress. Marley Glassroth + the Adam Selman team hand laying the Swarovski crystals
The hands east + west are dotting glue onto the fabric. Hands north + south are placing the Swarovski crystals onto the adhesive. 230,000 total.
You, your voice, your style, your soulful interpretations of all that goes on inside of us means so much to so many of us.
That your integrity was utilised to assert a style we SEE when we HEAR you is further reassurance of the woman & artist you are cherished for. ❤️
We conducted an interview with Betty Wright in London several years ago. It was scheduled for less than an hour. It ran to over two. She is a delight. A riot. A griot on the music industry, the societies it has inherited its prejudicial & competitive practices from & the value...
... creative & political legacy of black women. She recalled being stopped by police - proudly rocking her afro - during the hunt for #AngelaDavis in 1970 "... cause all black women with an afro look the SAME."
We must edit & upload that interview.
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i asked my dad to send me photos of him in his Nigerian traditional wear last week.
little did he know it’s cuz i wanted to dress like him for my first Afropunk performance.
A great thread illustrating not just Adele Ajetunmobi's talent, but Race, Place & (Disaporic) Space.
