All of These Kids Are Just Like The Others…

I know I’ve been super pro-black this week and I swear I’ll get back to your regularly scheduled non-racially tinged programming, but I must say can we get a brown (or yellow) face in the mix? And that is a challenge not just to GQ but to designers of color to make dope shit. Seriously. I would love to be able to point to more than just cats like Oswald Boateng, the Peart brothers, Waris Ahluwahlia and Adrian Savauge when talking about designers of color that are making amazing menswear. I’m not calling for some sort of Rooney Rule when it comes to the menswear media’s coverage of designers (though it’d be nice if they’d do some of the leg work and not just in February either). I know there are young guys such as myself with aspirations to do just this, and in the next 5-10 years I think we will all enjoy the fruits of their labor. It would, however, be nice to see some of that now. Outlets like Ebony and Black Enterprise have featured some folks… but honestly I wouldn’t wear 99% of the stuff they make. If you guys know more people, certainly drop me a note.
<Puts soapbox back in closet, starts thinking of ratchet things to tweet>
**Also, Eunice Lee is killing the game right now… but I was thinking of men of color when I was writing this.






