{"id":7928,"date":"2019-09-11T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontrowedit.co.uk\/?p=7928"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:57:12","slug":"well-balanced-collection-pyer-moss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontrowedit.co.uk\/well-balanced-collection-pyer-moss\/","title":{"rendered":"WELL BALANCED COLLECTION FROM PYER MOSS"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/span><\/p>\n After one season hiatus,\u00a0Pyer Moss\u00a0is back. And it\u2019s really good.\u00a0Kerby Jean-Raymond\u2018s spring-summer 2020 collection, presented in Brooklyn\u2019s Kings Theater in Weeksville and entitled\u00a0Sister<\/em>, is the third and final chapter in the Pyer Moss\u2019 \u201cAmerican, Also\u201d<\/em>\u00a0trilogy \u2013 and it paid homage to\u00a0Sister Rosetta Tharpe. A singer-songwriter who rose to popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, Tharpe is widely considered to be the godmother of rock & roll, though her legacy has been diminished in music\u2019s history book. \u201cI think relatively few people know that the sound of rock and roll was invented by a queer black woman in a church,<\/em>\u201d Jean-Raymond told\u00a0Vogue<\/em>\u00a0backstage. \u201cI wanted to explore what that aesthetic might have looked like if her story would have been told.<\/em>\u201d There were obvious nods to Tharpe\u2019s musicianship: the shape of her guitar was threaded through the curvy lapels of satin coats, and the most literal reference was a guitar-shaped handbag. There were subtle nods to her style too: a slightly monastic scarlet silk tunic layered over matching satin pants, for example. Tharpe wasn\u2019t the only black musician on the Pyer Moss mood board. Look closely at the chunky gold beads that were threaded onto braids and strung on statement necklaces, and you will notice the spirit of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu.<\/span><\/p>\n The rousing soundtrack included songs by several more legendary black female artists, like Missy Elliott. During the finale, the gospel sang Cardi B\u2019s already-iconic\u00a0Money\u00a0<\/em>and the audience went crazy. Not only music plays a crucial role in Kerby\u2019s creative process.\u00a0After last season\u2019s partnership with\u00a0Derrick Adams, Jean-Raymond sought out the talent of\u00a0Richard Phillips, an artist who recently made headline news after he was exonerated after spending 45 years in prison for a crime he didn\u2019t commit. Pyer Moss doesn\u2019t only educate on culture. The brand also gets political (\u201cVote or Die (For real this Time)<\/em>\u201d slogan on a tank-top actually conveys a meaning, not just some empty words) and\u2026 makes you want the clothes! They aren\u2019t heavy due to the weight of references behind them. It\u2019s worth mentioning that the designer is also the new\u00a0artistic director at Reebok, and his athleisure offering in the end of the show well balanced the collection.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After one season hiatus,\u00a0Pyer Moss\u00a0is back. And it\u2019s really good.\u00a0Kerby […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[875,876,475],"tags":[10,28,1417],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n