{"id":143686,"date":"2022-02-22T13:55:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=143686"},"modified":"2023-10-17T09:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T13:46:03","slug":"meet-the-black-emerging-talent-that-anchored-nyfw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=143686","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Black Emerging Talent that Anchored NYFW"},"content":{"rendered":"

For over 90 years, Black History Month has stood as a time to reflect on how far society has come and how far it has to go. Turn the page to the present-day and Black creatives in fashion have risen in ranks and are now determined to create space for future generations to come. As February winds down and the fashion industry advances halfway through the runway season, contributor Shelton Boyd-Griffith<\/a><\/a> zeroed in on the new-gen talent that made a mark this New York Fashion Week. A fashion & culture writer based in NYC, Boyd-Griffith focuses on the intersections of fashion, art, and culture, elevating emerging fashion talent, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ designers, and the ways fashion and politics collide. Here he weighs in on the emerging talents that should be on your radar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Words by Shelton Boyd-Griffith<\/a><\/a>
\nIntroduction | Managing Editor – Irene Ojo-Felix<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

After a noteworthy week of runway debuts, interactive presentations, and celebratory dinners, the NYFW F\/W 2022 season is officially over. Although this season felt the effects of COVID surges and falls, there was something particularly special in the air this season\u2014many of this season\u2019s shows centered around Black designers as the highlights of the week and took the coveted spots of NYFW pillars opting out of the schedule (see: Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, etc). From narratives surrounding socio-political movements to the inclusion of varying body types, ages, and identities to themes of folklore and Black liberation\u2014this NYFW was all about rising Black talent.<\/p>\n

The week kicked off with Nigerian-born, London-raised, and currently New York-based designer, Tia Adeola<\/a>. Taking place at the arresting Prince George Ballroom, the show encapsulated the personal brand ethos of Adeola, known for her manipulation of tulle, ruffled sheer applications, and feminine romanticism. Sitting out last season, Adeola spoke on the difficult year as a young designer combatting the effects of COVID on production and the trauma of the 2020 Lekki shooting on unarmed EndSARS protestors, a movement against Nigerian police brutality and corruption. \u201cI used that time to sit and think about everything that was happening around me since COVID, coupled with experiencing an uprising in my country,\u201d she says. Using her platform, she interjected her feelings into the collection, along with signature ruffled motifs and odes to depictions of Black bodies in Renaissance art. \u201cThe Renaissance era is great but Black people are missing from that part of history,\u201d she says. \u201cMy aim is to rewrite history through fashion and insert us [Black people of the diaspora] into the time periods we belong, through the garments, the music, my cause, and the hair.\u201d <\/p>\n

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