{"id":111301,"date":"2018-09-10T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=111301"},"modified":"2018-09-11T13:28:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:28:54","slug":"the-importance-of-pyer-mosss-fifth-anniversary-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/the-importance-of-pyer-mosss-fifth-anniversary-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Pyer Moss’ Fifth Anniversary Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blackness and the nuanced forms of anti-blackness have been threaded throughout news stories with question as to when, and how, it will all come to a fever pitch. Whether it’s the normalization of the Ku Klux Klan on America’s city streets or the calling of police on black citizens for insignificant offenses or the wave of xenophobia abroad, it has been a daunting task to navigate the space of the living as the “post-racial” narrative dissipates (if it ever existed at all). <\/p>\n

Kerby Jean-Raymond and his five-year-old brand Pyer Moss<\/a> set to address the current cultural climate this past Saturday hosting his show at Weeksville Heritage Center<\/a> in Brooklyn. The significance of the location, a neighborhood founded by African American freedmen, with buildings that pre-date the Civil War, paired harmoniously with his collection that aimed to celebrate and unapologetically promote the black experience. Titling his Spring 2019 show \u201cAmerican, Also: Lesson 2,\u201d his models marched to the sounds of a 40-person black choir singing songs from Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway – a nod to both the talented souls singers of yesteryear and the spiritual cornerstone of the American black experience, that was strangely fitting as the audience was baptized by the steady flow of rain. <\/p>\n

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Shirt available on pyermoss.com now \u2014 \u201c…his isn\u2019t streetwear but clothes about life at street level and the humanity of everyday people that is both universal and specific.\u201d -Robin Givhan, The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n

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