✊🏿🔥👏🏿❤📷 #ArtIsAWeapon #YallGonnaGetThisBlackExcellence GOOD GAWD look at all this gorgeous Blackness from @ozwald_boateng’s recent fashion show at the @apollotheater (swipe ⬅️)!! Reposted from @black_design_collective - When British designer @ozwald_boateng announced he would be staging a fashion show about “AI,” most people assumed he was talking about artificial intelligence. But to Boateng, AI stood for “authentic identity.” And the show’s looks left no doubt about his commitment to that ideal. The looks took West African design touches (Boateng is of #Ghanaian heritage) and combined them with nods to the #HarlemRenaissance. Boateng, who primarily designs menswear, branched out into womenswear for the show. The show’s opener was 67-year-old model Jo-Ani Johnson – signaling a new way forward for his eponymous fashion label. And that’s no coincidence – he has agreed to design new uniforms for British Airways personnel, which will make him the first black designer to create uniforms for a major global airline. #OzwaldBoateng #AuthenticIdentity #BlackDesignCollective #BlackFashion #BlackDesigner #BlackFashionDesigners #BlackExcellence #Harlem #ApolloTheater #WestAfrica #Ghana #Jidenna #AldisHodge #MichaelKWilliams #BlackDesigners #BritishAirways #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/BxQYxI_lYvw/?igshid=17n2kbqkbdiwa
