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“…fashion’s capacity for fuller, more nuanced storytelling is most evident on a runway. Lorenzo used his first show to acknowledge that people are shaped by their history even when they successfully break free of it — no matter whether that history is something learned at a parent’s knee rather than experienced firsthand.

…a soundtrack echoed with tambourine and clapping hands pounding out a rhythm behind a series of monologues in the cadence of the Black church. The words were from the prayer meeting in the Civil War film “Glory” — when Black men prepared to go into battle to help save the very Union that oppressed them. Their speeches are about hope, something that has been tested and thwarted, and occasionally validated, over time: “If tomorrow is the great getting-up morning, if that tomorrow we have to meet the Judgment Day … we want you to let our folks know that we died facing the enemy. We want ’em to know that we went down standing up. We want ’em to know, Heavenly Father, that we died for freedom.”

And then, in the lingering darkness, a door at the top of the runway opened, and a light cracked through as if it was a gateway to generations of promise. The diverse cast of men and women walked the runway to a juxtaposition of luxurious trappings strolling a catwalk to such a devastating song was jarring. They moved unhurried and with ease in roomy trousers in shades of midnight and cream, loosefitting jackets in butterscotch and extravagant furry overcoats in marigold. The complexity was in the story of how those clothes came to be. The pain of the past was embedded in their beauty.

The show underscored that journey. And it did so at a time when many in the culture would prefer to ignore the uncomfortable details of the past.
“With the music, I wanted to share a part of the Christian journey, the Black journey, and not the parts that people just like to pick and celebrate,” Lorenzo said. “It’s a beautiful journey, but it’s even more beautiful if you pay attention to every part of it and understand why it is what it is.”
For Lorenzo, the clothes are not the story. They are the result of it.”

THE WASHINGTON POST
APRIL 22, 2023

“F is for Freedom”

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