INNER CITY PRESSURE

WE MUST BE SEEN……… As a conceptual designer that bases her ideas around real life issues using the idea of police brutality for my final collection was a perfect representation of inner-city life combined with the two-tone movement which fused sportswear and tailoring aesthetics together to create new silhouettes and shape details. Witnessing the inner-city life was new for me and my parents who migrated from Somalia to escape the civil war as refugees and moved into a community that represented racial unity as shown with the two-tone movement. I used reflective tapes and fabrics to get across the message of ‘WE MUST BE SEEN’ within the collection and shiny PVC’s to highlight the need for us to stand out and not be left behind in ghettos. I love communicating through fashion and merging the political with the purely visual. Clothes are worn in most events in life and serve as protection, comfort and also communication. WE MUST BE SEEN SO THAT THE DARK CANNOT TAKE US…