THE UNDEFEATED – "New York Fashion Week: At Telfar and Pyer Moss, messages in the music"

THE UNDEFEATED – "New York Fashion Week: At Telfar and Pyer Moss, messages in the music"

The Pyer Moss show Saturday evening was a traditional runway show, but it was similarly moving. The label’s founder, Kerby Jean-Raymond has found his niche in marrying beauty with irreverence, and this year, he presented the first part of a ready-to-wear line he’s designed for Reebok. Backed by a gospel choir bedecked in white, the models, all people of color, walked out to a playlist customized by Rafael Saadiq, which began with “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen.” If you listened closely, the lyrics changed, and the choir began to sing the words “too many n—-s in white designers.

 

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