The Black Fashion Museum

Articles of Interest

Avery Trufelman

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The tricky thing about fashion is that, in order to preserve its history, you need to preserve physical garments. And, alas, closet space is finite, cloth gets sun-bleached and eaten by moths, and Americans notoriously do not care about their fashion heritage. So this is why one woman decided to put a call out across the country and make a scrappy archive all by herself.

This story was reported by Enya Hennings. Pictures, details and more at articlesofinterest.substack.com

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0:00.0	My first understanding of fashion was always black because my grandma was the first person
0:06.6	it started with.
0:08.2	On Saturdays, I would watch her perfectly lay out and iron pants until they had like that
0:12.3	crispy edge seam.
0:14.8	She would not go anywhere unless she had her wig on and all of her gold rings and was
0:19.3	like dressed to the nines.
0:21.1	She didn't have anything fancy, but most of the stuff that she has was like handmade by
0:25.0	her friends.
0:26.0	So you could see all the stitching and everything.
0:28.0	This is like literally hers.
0:29.0	I'm always wearing, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm always wearing her stuff every day.
0:33.0	And it defined my entire life and my entire understanding of fashion meaning something.
0:37.6	I'm asked you to introduce yourself.
0:40.0	Yes.
0:41.0	I am Anya Hennings.
0:42.6	I work as the global marketing manager at Tom Brown and I have been working in fashion
0:47.3	for seven years, kind of exploring the anthropological and cultural aspects of fashion
0:53.0	on the side.
0:54.5	The sounds like such a stupid question, but like when did you find out there were black
0:57.2	designers?
0:58.7	It's not a stupid question at all.
1:00.5	There was zebra mention of black designers.
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