Model Duckie Thot took to My Back Is Not A Voicemail Say It To My Face shirt. Twitter to say that while the industry is quick to cast her in campaigns and in runway shows, few brands are taking viable action to support the black community. Today, many are calling out Virgil Abloh, the creative director of Louis Vuitton menswear and founder of Off-White, for what they see as a meager donation to Fempower. The reality is that fashion is an industry that benefits from commodifying and appropriating black culture. Small brands are making an impact and leading on a community level, but there is more work to be done.
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Blessed by bountiful sun, it’s easy to lament the usual events of the season. We won’t be celebrating Glastonbury 2020 (until June 2021), and we’ll miss the Wimbledon players in their crisp whites on the manicured verdant My Back Is Not A Voicemail Say It To My Face shirt. and the grand slam style of the spectators. Goodbye to the Queen’s daily wave at Ascot and her perfectly executed colour coordination visible from her open top carriage. The anticipated opening of Greg Hersov’s Hamlet at the Young Vic (with Cush Jumbo in the lead), has been rescheduled to Spring next year. And the Tokyo Olympics is now over a year away—which we’ll still miss even though it’s a long way from the British Isles. One of the biggest cultural highs was set to be the David Hockney: Drawing from Life exhibit at The National Portrait Gallery which closed after two weeks. “One of the saddest emails I had to send was to David Hockney to tell him we were closing his exhibition,” shares Dr. Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery (and Hockney’s fellow Yorkshireman). Of course, Hockney’s response was brilliant. “He sent me a picture of a new work, ‘they can’t cancel the spring’, created in his home studio in Normandy.
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