While most of our closet doesn't venture beyond our front doors these days, fashion's most outlandish innovators are determined we look good either way. Iris Van Herpen, Alexander McQueen, and more continue to inspire us with celebratory, eccentric clothes. With stark lines and theatrical shapes, avant-garde designers are creating fashion to engender enough fantasy for our current times and beyond. Here, legendary beauty Hannelore Knuts looks ahead to a fashionable future worth fêting.
Dress IRIS VAN HERPEN.
Dress IRIS VAN HERPEN.
Shirt GIORGIO ARMANI, hat RUUD ANTHONI.
Jacket and boots ALEXANDER MCQUEEN.
That post exemplifies the root of the problem - a historical legacy of centuries of propaganda based on the premise of European racial supremacy. It portrays the white colonial master that is the savior to the ever thankful poor black slave. Thank God, I’m an emancipated African - and I don’t worship at the feet of white gods - the Queen or the Governor, who are simply relics of outmoded colonialism built on the tenets of racist institutions of white supremacy that colonized and enslaved Africans for centuries.
As Bob Marley said, “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,” because sometimes, “shit is just shit!”