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21 Jun

Willie Norris Talks Turning 33 During Pride Month

June could also be Pride Month, but this 12 months it’s also Willie Norris month. The trans-feminine clothier, who serves as design director of the Outlier streetwear label, fittingly rang in her thirty third birthday in three installments. First, there was a dance party at an area boxing ring; then a visit to Paris for her actual birthday on June 12, and the grand finale Tuesday evening, an intimate dinner at Brooklyn’s Le Crocodile brasserie. She had loads to make up for, having held off on any celebrations for last 12 months’s birthday. “I wanted to avoid wasting all of it for 33,” she said during cocktail hour. “I’ve desired to be 33 my whole life because Nickelodeon was on Channel...
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14 Jun

Marimekko Recruits Three Artists for Installations to Have fun

POINTS OF PRIDE: In honor of Pride Month, the Finnish design house Marimekko has called upon three LGBTQ visual artists in Latest York, Bangkok and Helsinki, Finland, to create work for a Marimekko store window. Brooklyn, Latest York-based art director and illustrator Shanée Benjamin, Bangkok-based illustrator Juli Baker and Summer and the Helsinki-based visual and textile artist Anna-Karoliina Vainio were recruited for commissions. Baker, who earned a fashion degree at Chulalongkorn University, began her artist profession under the nom de plume Juli Baker and Summer in 2015. As some extent of reference to assist get the three artists’ ideas circulating, they got a quote by Marimekko founder Armi Ratia, who wrote in her diary on the age of 14, “There is barely one strength —...
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