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20 Jun

WITH Q, DENZIL FORRESTER, STEPHEN FRIEDMAN GALLERY, LONDON, For 4 many years, Grenada-born, London-based painter Denzil Forrester has examined Black British culture through his wealthy documentation and composition of London’s West Indian community within the Eighties, to Jamaica’s reggae and dub club scene. His latest show, With Q is a survey of his works on paper from the last 40 years and latest paintings. Importantly, the show’s title addresses the racist incident involving a 15-year-old Black British schoolgirl identified as Child Q, who was strip-searched by police in a case that raised (much more) questions on police and their oppression of the Black community. A 2022 painting titled “Q” places the varsity girl amidst an empty nightclub, surrounded by three policemen,...

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18 Jun

CFDA and Genesis House Team Up for AAPI Grant

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CFDA and Genesis House Team Up for AAPI Grant

In an effort to support the following generation of AAPI designers, the immersive space Genesis House and the Council of Fashion Designers of America are teaming as much as debut the CFDA/Genesis House AAPI Design + Innovation Grant. The five-month initiative is geared toward fostering talent within the AAPI community. Three up-and-coming designers can be vying for the CFDA’s inaugural AAPI innovation grant. Submissions can be open later this summer for this mentorship program. The trio will present their final designs to Prabal Gurung, actress Jodie Turner-Smith, Monse cofounder Fernando Garcia, Saks Fifth Avenue’s Sandra Park and Alina Cho, amongst others. This system will culminate with designers making a bespoke collection that highlights “the friction between Korean cultural tradition and modernity,” with...

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6 Jun

The House of LR&C Discusses SDGs at United Nations

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The House of LR&C Discusses SDGs at United Nations

The United Nations Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network hosted its annual meeting, co-convened by the Fashion Impact Fund and the United Nations Office for Partnerships, on June 1, on the United Nations Headquarters in Latest York. The event was attended by greater than 150 industry stakeholders, United Nations representatives and members of the media to debate actions, solutions and progress and advance knowledge to strengthen engagement to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals. The meeting began with a temporary but powerful statement from Annemarie Hou, executive director of the United Nations office for partnerships, who addressed the “most trendy crowd on the UN” who she urged to “make a fashion statement today.” “We wish the world to take notice,” Hou said. “We wish...

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4 Jun

An Artist, a Luxury Fashion House and the Start

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An Artist, a Luxury Fashion House and the Start

What began over pizza in Milan with Miuccia Prada has turn out to be a model value mimicking on the subject of bringing more diverse creatives into the fold. And the Italian fashion house has Theaster Gates to thank for much of it. The artist and chairman of Prada Group’s diversity and inclusion advisory council has been busy bringing Black creatives to larger stages as a part of the Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab he co-created with the style house in 2022. Fourteen creatives across disciplines — including fashion but extending to culinary arts and architecture, amongst others — were chosen for the three-year collaborative program designed to each bolster their work and broaden their reach. Earlier this month, three of the...

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