Round 1 - 2022 (In America: An Anthology of Fashion / Gilded Glamour) - Match 93 of 101

Eric Adams (Laolu Senbanjo), left

"He wore a tuxedo that read "End Gun Violence" on the back, designed by Laolu Senbanjo, a local immigrant from Nigeria. "We know this age, the gilded age, was an age where so many people were exploited," Adams said. "We're not going to return to that exploitation. We're going to be united together. That's my role as the mayor." ... "There's a time of reckoning, and with the Met Gala, the platform, and this year's theme, something in there just hit me," [Laolu] said. "I felt like, yeah, there's a lot that could be said. ... It wasn't such a happy era for people that look like me, so I wanted to pay homage to those souls, those ancestors, who actually paved the way for me to be here."" "The tuxedo jacket featured iconic features of New York, such as the Brooklyn Bridge. The jacket also displays a large handgun with a red slash through it. ... "The goal is to end gun violence and save our children," Adams told Bloomberg." (x)(x)

vs. Evan Mock (Head of State), right

""When I knew I was making a piece for Evan, I think about Evan as a character and where he fits within this theme of Gilded Glamour, which is 18th Century fashion. And in all these images I could find of men during that time period, they were all dressed like butlers. They were all dressed in the traditional black suit and a white shirt. And in a way Evan doesn't fit that, just him being Evan, a kid from Hawaii — You can't really find any reference of someone like that during the 18th Century that fitted the theme of the Gilded Glamour. So, in a way, we started talking about how can we incorporate his youthful energy. The way you think about youth, you think about counterculture, you think about someone who wasn't doing whatever it is that's traditional to what's happening during that time period. So in a way, Taylor and I started talking and he sent me a bunch of references and stuff with the corsets and a lot of beautiful images that spark my imagination, and we're able to put a little twist and make it suit what the 18th Century Gilded Glamour theme was and make something way more counterculture, I would say. And something that doesn't fit within what you would expect a man to wear during that time period." "Taofeek's work is already amazing, and to his point of me just wanting to make sure that it's very true to Evan being young, a skater, coming from the beach, and we're both from O'ahu, every time I dress him I always approach it from context. I want to fulfill the assignment, but I also want to fulfill the assignment for my client, and so it needs to make sense for him, and that's why him and I do such a good job together. It's because we always find that balance of fulfilling what the context is, but also staying true to who he is, because he already has an innate sense of style. He already has this effortless cool about him that nobody needs to touch or mess with. And so when I started to think about the Gilded Age and the theme of Gilded Glamour, and because Taofeek already does such beautiful feminine pieces and garments, why don't we take a twist on it? And Evan's the type of person that can really carry that genderless definition of what somebody has to wear, even in today's society. And so that's really where I started to pull references from and wanted to push Evan into that realm of taking a risk."" (x)

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