Union Black

Event Curators who '...undress black music & fashion' for institutions like London College of Fashion, the British Library & the V&A. Insta: union_black_uk

[Union Black @Union_Black]

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[Union Black @Union_Black]

... that fabric & design doesn't recognises categorisation. Fabric & design simply allow those categorised to BE and DO. To act on lust this & prior collections toy with.

@rihanna & @SavageXFenty - like @fentybeauty: FUBU.

And what a BEAUTIFUL *US* that is!

[Union Black @Union_Black]

Thread.

The very thing @rihanna & @SavageXFenty are rightly praised for are the things established brands that DOMINATED the market worked to stave off: inclusion; reflecting physical & identity diversity w/in the promotion & sale of their products.

https://t.co/ah6tY28Gip

[Union Black @Union_Black]

Aspirationally reflecting the consumer market back unto itself.

So now those brands watch from the sidelines as beauty & sensuality - as exhibited on the physical frames of the women, men, gender non-conforming, petite, full-figured who contributed to this show - remind us all

[Union Black @Union_Black]

An *excellent* thread on the sartorial art of Beyonce's latest gift to us all...

[Oni @oniii_f]

Black Is King: A Fashion Thread

[Union Black @Union_Black]

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[ig: @kihmberlie @kihmberlie]

Used pin spotlights and baby powder to recreate a scene from Chloe x Halle’s Forgive Me music video 🔦💨

[Union Black @Union_Black]

Great thread!

[Union Black @Union_Black]

Fantastic THREAD on the casualisation of transphobia w/in popular entertainment; its use in defining the 'norms' of cis beauty, complexion & physicality; the singular & combined abuse of categories to denigrate girls & women.

Culturally propelled by lies, language & jealousies.

[Diondra La Negra @HoochieDoll]

I’m going to start this off with Patti Labelle because her strong features, dramatic drag like style, and big gay following has caused her to receive transphobic remarks. Someone today who doesn’t know who she is could be told she’s trans and they’d agree. That’s how easy it is.

[Union Black @Union_Black]

W-o-W.

[PRADANGEL @angeIictearss]

Rihanna’s stylist shared the dress she was supposed to wear to this year's Met Gala

[Union Black @Union_Black]

THREAD!

[Shelby Ivey Christie @bronze_bombSHEL]

Hand work being done on Rihanna’s 2014 CFDA naked dress. Marley Glassroth + the Adam Selman team hand laying the Swarovski crystals

The hands east + west are dotting glue onto the fabric. Hands north + south are placing the Swarovski crystals onto the adhesive. 230,000 total.

[Union Black @Union_Black]

You, your voice, your style, your soulful interpretations of all that goes on inside of us means so much to so many of us.

That your integrity was utilised to assert a style we SEE when we HEAR you is further reassurance of the woman & artist you are cherished for. ❤️

[Anita Baker @IAMANITABAKER]

Back in the day, Every Album Cover & Video? I processed, wrapped, cut & curled my own hair. Stylists, kept bringing "Ridiculously Long, Un-textured Weaves & Wigs" They felt "My Own Hair", was not "Professional or Glamorous enough"😭😳😂

[Union Black @Union_Black]

... creative & political legacy of black women. She recalled being stopped by police - proudly rocking her afro - during the hunt for #AngelaDavis in 1970 "... cause all black women with an afro look the SAME."

We must edit & upload that interview.

https://t.co/WjAUgVjHcZ

[Union Black @Union_Black]

We conducted an interview with Betty Wright in London several years ago. It was scheduled for less than an hour. It ran to over two. She is a delight. A riot. A griot on the music industry, the societies it has inherited its prejudicial & competitive practices from & the value...

[Union Black @Union_Black]

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[CHIKA 🧚🏾‍♂️ @oranicuhh]

i asked my dad to send me photos of him in his Nigerian traditional wear last week.

little did he know it’s cuz i wanted to dress like him for my first Afropunk performance.

[Union Black @Union_Black]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[⊱ ❧⋱𝘼𝙡𝙞 ⋰❧ ⊰ @713hottie]

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Ur fav mua is quaking !

[Union Black @Union_Black]

A great thread illustrating not just Adele Ajetunmobi's talent, but Race, Place & (Disaporic) Space.

[jacquie 🧍🏾‍♀️🐈 @jacquieotag]

East London during the 1970s by one of the UK's first black photographers, Bandele 'Tex' Ajetunmobi. Born in Nigeria in 1921, he died in 1994; most of his work was lost save for 200 negatives rescued by his niece.

[Union Black @Union_Black]

*Banksy-designed stab-prood vest.

**of

[Union Black @Union_Black]

Stunning. Structured. Memorable.

A Union Jack emblazoned bullet proof vest - as much an indictment od the prey that black British men are in the country of their birth as testament to wearing it onstage as British rap's first headliner is to personal triumph over circumstance.