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Dress
Design House Pyer Moss American
Designer Kerby Jean-Raymond American
Design House FUBU American
Not on view
AFFINITY 1. Sympathy especially as marked by community of interest:
For the second installment of "American Also," his three-part series of collections addressing Black narratives, Kerby Jean-Raymond explored "what the African-American experience would look like without the constant threat of racism." Presented in the historic Brooklyn neighborhood of Weeksville, founded by free African Americans, it included this choir robe-inspired dress, a collaboration with the streetwear label FUBU (For Us By Us). Of the partnership, Jean-Raymond explained: "We wanted to highlight designers that weren’t seen. These companies grossed hundreds of millions in their prime, but weren’t recognized . . . because they were considered urban, not fashion."
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