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Tuesday, June 16, 2020
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Beloved New York Label Sies Marjan Shuts Down Amidst COVID-19
On Monday evening, New York brand Sies Marjan announced that it will be closing its doors after five years in business as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. “What we have worked on has been a dream come true,” creative director Sander Lak said in a press release. “Thank you to everyone who has given their time and talent to Sies Marjan over the years. We have built a singular brand whose legacy is not just in the clothes and collections but within each person who contributed along the way.”
Sies Marjan, named after Lak’s parents, first showed during New York Fashion Week in February 2016 — a debut collection made up of cocktail dresses, cool separates, and footwear that many in the media praised him for. Prior to Sies Marjan, Lak had worked for Dries van Noten, something that was apparent in the impeccable tailoring and innovative designs of his brand. Sies Marjan became known for its colorful palette and in-your-face designs, going on to win the 2018 CFDA Award for emerging talent.
After making the jump to Paris last June for the Spring 2020 Menswear season (which also showed womenswear), Sies Marjan returned to New York in September. Lak’s last NYFW show, Fall 2020, touched on sustainability and climate change, with plant-dyed prints and natural textiles.
While this news is a loss for New York’s fashion industry, it’s not entirely surprising. Young independent designers were having a hard time even prior to the pandemic, with a broken industry that struggled to reconcile the advent of online shopping with the traditional storefront, continued to deliver collections against seasons, and caused brands to have to rely on discounting to fully move collections. (In fact, Sies Marjan was one of the brands that participated in the #rewiringfashion initiative that calls to reset the fashion calendar among other big actions to change the industry.) The coronavirus pandemic put a halt on manufacturing and production, which had devastating financial implications, especially for brands that were already troubled.
Sies Marjan will be missed — always a bright and exciting spot on a fashion calendar that all too often favors tradition and safe designs over innovation and out-there styles. We’ll be following what Lak does next.
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Jane Fonda, King Princess, & Lil Nas X Go Off The Grid For Gucci’s New Sustainable Collection
Gucci is known for its productions. The Italian luxury brand’s use of 3-D printed severed heads and Game of Thrones-esque dragons are proof enough of that. But a level of extravagance such as the one shown at the label’s fall ‘18 show is no longer feasible — at least for now, while most people are still in quarantine. Instead, creative director Alessadro Michele got crafty, with his last campaign arriving in the form of home videos taken and directed by his models in quarantine. For this one, he was able to gather today’s most formidable A-listers, including Oscar-winning actress and activist Jane Fonda, Grammy winner Lil Nas X, “Pussy Is God” singer King Princess, and more.
Michele wouldn’t call on a group of this stature for just any reason, though. Rather, they gathered to model the first collection from Gucci’s Circular Lines initiative, a program that’s been in the works for some time now and is meant to reduce the house’s waste production levels and minimize its use of raw materials. The collection is titled “Gucci Off The Grid,” and is made only from recycled, organic, bio-based, and sustainably sourced materials like metal-free tanned leather, recycled polyester thread, recycled brass, and solvent-free adhesives. Its main material is 100% regenerated nylon created using ECONYL yarn that was recycled from pre- and post-consumer waste — a process that Gucci introduced in 2016.
The campaign includes both videos and imagery — shot and directed by film director Harmony Korine, the writer-director behind cult classic film Kids, as well as Spring Breakers and The Beach Bum — of the cast, which also includes Japan’s “Samurai Guitarist” Miyavi and environmentalist David de Rothschild. All five can be seen wearing pieces from the collection while building a treehouse and planting seeds in the middle of what looks like Central Park in New York City. “In the campaign, there is this idea of dialogue among people building something new,” Michele says in a press release. “I imagined that we could build a treehouse in a city centre, all together, like kids playing in the park. Because all of us need to build this house or to find out that our planet exists, even where it seems it’s not there, or it’s far away.”
According to Michele, the juxtaposition of the treehouse and the skyscrapers behind it act as a metaphor for living — you guessed it — off the grid.
Starting Tuesday, the campaign will be posted on Gucci ArtWalls all around the world, from Lafayette Street in lower Manhattan to Hong Kong’s D’Aguilar Street. In addition, it also includes a virtual concept, which allows users to build their own city treehouses via a quiz in the Gucci App.
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Here’s Why People Wore White To The Black Trans Lives Matter March
On Sunday, over 15,000 people made their way to the Brooklyn Museum to support the Black Trans Lives Matter movement. The demonstration took place after multiple Black trans people, including Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells, Riah Milton, Tony McDade, and Layleen Cubilette-Polanco, were killed. Coming together to honor Black trans lives, nearly everyone in attendance was wearing white.
In doing so, the group sent a powerful message, one that is steeped in historical significance.
In 1917, following racial tensions and violent attacks on the Black community by white people in St. Louis, Missouri, the NAACP organized what is now known as the 1917 Silent Protest Parade, a march that took place on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on July 28. During the demonstration, a group of 10,000 attendees held signs that read, “Make America safe for democracy” and “We march because we deem it a crime to be silent in the face of such barbaric acts,” according to the Association’s website — signs not much different from those of recent weeks prompted by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and more Black people at the hands of the police.
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Photos from the Silent Protest Parade also show women and children wearing white.
According to a tweet by Fran Tirado, one of the organizers of Sunday’s demonstration, that’s where the idea to ask attendees to follow suit came from. “Ten days ago, West Dakota called me with idea,” the tweet says. West Dakota, a drag queen from Brooklyn, is one of Tirado’s fellow organizers. “A Brooklyn-based protest creating space and action for Black trans lives. She referenced a New York protest in 1917 when the NAACP assembled 10,000 all wearing white standing up against anti-Black violence.”
Ten days ago, West Dakota called me with idea. A Brooklyn-based protest creating space and action for Black trans lives. She referenced a New York protest in 1917 when the NAACP assembled 10,000 all wearing white standing up against anti-Black violence. #brooklynliberation pic.twitter.com/NlzecJrolU
— Fran Tirado (@fransquishco) June 15, 2020
White was meant to replace rainbow, a color scheme that has been associated with Pride, but, in recent years, has been capitalized on by corporations. In the LGBTQ+ community, the concept is known as pinkwashing: the meaningless marketing and political strategies used by companies to feign support for LGBTQ+ people. As GQ notes, even the police are guilty of it, hanging rainbow flags outside of its precincts, all the while killing innocent Black queer people. The irony, given Pride’s history as a protest aimed against police, is not lost on anyone.
“THE REVOLUTION IS NOW. PINKWASHING IS OVER. RAINBOW CAPITALISM IS OVER. NO PERMIT, NO WORKING WITH COPS. NO PRIDE FOR SOME OF US WITHOUT LIBERATION FOR ALL OF US,” Dakota wrote on Instagram.
White, as the article points out, acts as a blank slate for the Black trans community. “Another part of our incentive for folks to wear white was to help the public understand a new, visual way to imagine our community — the dawn of a new era that would not just include Black Trans and gendernonconforming people, but put them at the front where they belong,” Tirado told GQ. In wearing white, it also allowed the community to remove the former significance associated with the rainbow so as to stop others from using it to their advantage. In the article, Tirado adds that now, rainbow — and Pride month in general — has been co-opted by white, cis people, the one group the month is not meant to celebrate. On the contrary, white stands out, Dakota added.
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The result was extremely powerful, as seen in images and videos taken from the occasion. However, some believe it wasn’t enough. One Instagram user @moniquelmm called on her followers to do more for the Black trans community in the caption of a photo from the protest. “Black & brown trans folks led (and continue to lead) movements for both LGBTQ+ and black rights. Yet we fail to give them the respect and recognition they deserve,” the caption reads. “Black trans people are consistently left out of discussions involving queer, black, and/or feminist issues, yet they are the most profiled and susceptible minorities. The media and the government are constantly deadnaming them, overlooking their cases, undermining the violence they endure, and even denying them simple rights such as equitable healthcare.”
Still, as Tirado says, “this is the largest trans-based protest in history.” And with protests continuing to take place all around the world, this movement is only getting bigger.
To help bring attention to the police killing of George Floyd, you can sign the Change.org petition here, or donate to local organizations like Black Vision Collective or Reclaim the Block via the Minnesota Freedom Fund here.
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50 Jewelry Brands Teamed Up To Support Young Black Designers
Jewelry showroom For Future Reference announced on Thursday the creation of an endowment with New York City-based jewelry designer Brent Neale Winston. Named the Art Smith Memorial Scholarship Fund, in honor of the late Afro-Caribbean jewelry designer Arthur George “Art” Smith, it will give opportunities, such as ongoing scholarships and mentorship programs, to the next generation of Black designers studying jewelry design at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
For Future Reference and Brent Neale Winston raised $50,000 from 50 jewelry brands — including Retrouveí, Zoë Chicco, Anita Ko, MATEO, and more — to start the fund, whose goal is to better diversify the jewelry industry, where people of color have been historically underrepresented. “Our goal is to turn that statistic around — with your help — one student at a time,” the Art Smith Memorial Scholarship Fund reads.
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“We specifically created an endowment, not a scholarship, because we wanted to invest in a long-term contribution to an issue that needs more than a Band-Aid,” Randi Molofsky, the co-founder of For Future Reference, wrote in an email to Refinery29 on Monday. “This money will grow and reinvest and anyone can continue contributing to it, and we hope that students will benefit for years to come. But it’s certainly not a solution — we see it as a step in the right direction.”
For more information, young Black designers can reach out directly to Molofsky at randi@forfuturereference.com. “The scholarship will be officially on the FIT Office of Financial Aid website in about a week or two,” he says. “It’s slated for Fall 2020-Spring ’21. Interested students should contact the FIT Office of Financial Aid for more information about this scholarship or any others available.” Molofsky can also provide insight on how to contribute to the endowment. “It’s a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and every dollar that goes in makes a difference,” he wrote.
The late Art Smith was known for his use of mid-century modern design techniques. Inspired by classic African motifs and surrealism, as well as biomorphism and primitivism, the Cuban-born Jamaican artist created wearable sculptures meant to move with the wearer. Smith is often considered the first commercially successful African American jewelry designer in the U.S. who paved the way for many Black designers to come.
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