{"id":124565,"date":"2019-09-11T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=124565"},"modified":"2020-05-26T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T15:13:53","slug":"pyer-moss-recalls-forgotten-history-with-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=124565","title":{"rendered":"Pyer Moss Recalls Forgotten History with SISTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEniola Abioro<\/a><\/small>
\nI will start this review by saying Sister Rosetta Thorpe invented rock music. Beginning with the legacy of that particular black woman, Kerby Jean-Raymond<\/a> thought about all the influential black female musicians that have raised the bar with their voices for his latest installment for Pyer Moss<\/a>. It’s been a long year waiting for Jean-Raymond – after his successful SS19 show the designer has been on hiatus, heightening the anticipation of what he would present after his 2018 CFDA\/Vogue Fashion Fund win last year. Last Sunday’s show titled SISTER<\/em> was Jean-Raymond’s third lesson on black culture’s erasure from the American framework presented in the historic Kings Theatre – a sprawling, newly-renovated setting with a 3,000 capacity that was packed to the brim. The ornate theatre morphed quickly into a megachurch, opening with a sermon from writer Casey Gerald on the 400th anniversary since the first Africans were stolen from their lands. From there, a huge choir and band gave a moving soundtrack for models adorned in Sankofa prints, primary-colored and sorbet hues, and glimpses of musical motifs via accessories. <\/p>\n

Pyer Moss continued its ritual of collaborations by including deeply personal work threaded throughout the collection. Continuing his partnership with Reebok<\/a> (Jean-Raymond is the brand’s Artistic Director), S\/S 20<\/a> also featured prints from artist Richard Phillips recently exonerated after spending 45 years in prison for a crime he never committed. Custom jewelry via hair beads, earrings, and necklaces from Johnny Nelson<\/a> honored the top black women in music spanning the eras and genres from Chaka Khan to Beyonce to Lil Kim. And what’s more, a pleasant partnership with the first black man to win a CFDA award for Sean John, Sean Diddy Combs, rounded up a trio of collaborations from black-owned brands Cross Colours and FUBU, far from forgotten. Newcomer Katherine Mateo<\/a> continued her work with Pyer Moss with all-black cast featuring notable names Caleb McLaughlin<\/a> and Doja Cat mixed in with models Riley Montana<\/a>, Elibeidy Dani<\/a>, Eniola Abioro<\/a>, Chavi St. Hill<\/a>, Brionka Halbert<\/a>, Morocco B<\/a>, and Yves Mathieu<\/a>. Jean-Raymond’s strongest show yet had me reflecting on black people’s role in fashion, music and pop culture in general – that somehow, someway beauty can still bloom despite the injustice of it all. <\/p>\n

All photos by Eva al Desnudo<\/a> for Models.com<\/p>\n

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\nChavi St. Hill<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

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\nBrionka Halbert<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

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\nRoshni Copriz<\/small><\/p>\n

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\nYves Mathieu<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

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\nChetan Cutting<\/small><\/p>\n

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\nCaleb McLaughlin<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

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\nGeo Cervantes<\/small><\/p>\n

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Celebrating the history of black women in music, Pyer Moss makes an epic return for NYFW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"featured_media":124574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10414],"tags":[12250,11928,12249,12248,12252,10949,11329,12670,12254,12247,11814,11779,12253,12138,11280,11281,9315,12251,11628,12184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124565"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124914,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124565\/revisions\/124914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}