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Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Saturday, October 11, 2025
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Monday, June 27, 2022
Monday, January 17, 2022
Monday, January 18, 2021
on Martin Luther King Jr Day
On this day of remembrance, looking back to the crisp December morning in 2017 on which i traveled by train to Washington DC to discover the bright, bronze-hued National Museum of African American History and Culture. i was joined there by a talented designer i had worked with a few years prior while curating local finds for the lifestyle store created for Four Seasons Hotel Georgetown.
Jennifer and i shared the journey through the museum and the full range of emotions accompanying it, a physical, emotional and spiritual pilgrimage of sorts from which it was impossible not to emerge changed.
One aspect of the experience i responded to most were the quotes by legendary African American writers, poets and leaders engraved into the walls of the now iconic David Adjaye designed structure, from Maya Angelou to Langston Hughes to Martin Luther King Jr himself.
In the grand interior Contemplation Court meant for quiet and reflection, Dr King's words echoed through the force of water raining down into a cylindrical pool from a skylight above: "We are determined ... to work and fight until justice runs down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."
We look to the future again this week, looking forward to new hope, to change, beginning with the upcoming inauguration and the first Youth Poet Laureate, and youngest inaugural poet ever, Amanda Gorman, to share her words, and her vision when she reads a poem written at the invitation of Joe and Jill Biden, "The Hill We Climb."
The mighty legacy of Dr King and so many other courageous men and women, flows on...
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| national museum of african american history and culture (photos, mine) |
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Sunday, September 15, 2019
uniform
The African Diaspora and the theme of renewal was on the minds of Rosario Dawson and Abrimah Erwiah at Studio 189 who traveled to Ghana earlier this year by invitation of President Nana Akufo-Addo to celebrate Year of Return.
On the runway, diversity was celebrated through fabric, color, pattern, dance, song and symbolism.
The red white and blue stripes amidst the bold African prints stood out, particularly on the day before the anniversary of the September 11th tragedy. Vogue later shared in an interview with the designers that this nod was a way of exploring heritage and shared history.... https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2020-ready-to-wear/studio-189
This is the third year for me attending the show, consistently brilliantly theatrical and collectively shared, with costume and ceremony key to conveying the roots of the collection and the profound creative and social impulses propelling this women led initiative.
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| studio one eighty nine... |
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Sunday, December 30, 2018
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
oh Christmas!
dear new york,
how can i take just one picture of you?
merry christmas!
xoxo fashion is love...
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| saturday evening, washington square park... |
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
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