Harper’s Bazaar: Who have you ever had homicidal feelings toward in the fashion business?
Iman: Geoffrey Beene! I loved his clothes but not him. Years ago, we were about to walk the runway and he pushed me. I said, “Don’t do that!” “You work for me!” he said, and I replied, “No, you’ve hired my services, dear. I don’t work for you,” and I left.
IMAN. Ugh, amazing.
I use Google Reader for craft and design feeds more than anything else. Recently I excised the Sartorialist from my list- every now and then there would be a particularly lovely photograph, but the weird class and race dynamics got to be too much.
I love this photo shoot. I love seeing people of color featured in fashion spreads, instead of being used as an exotic accessory for white people. I do understand that there are valid class and culture critiques inherent in people of color wearing preppy and vintage fashions, but to some extent I see it as a way of rewriting the narrative of people of color as inhabiting rigid sartorial roles.
(Also, having gone to an East Coast liberal arts college, at least some of that aesthetic has rubbed off on me.)
