"There's a lot of in my work the black body searching for an idyllic space. And I think the use of vibrant color, the use of natural light, the way that that kind of colors and taints black and brown skin to me feels a lot of how I feel," Mitchell says.
For Beyoncé's shoot in particular, Mitchell says he researched the background imagery surrounding African-Americans and the African diaspora. Specifically, he says he looked to Congolese and Haitian references. "Beyoncé really wanted to elevate everything to a new level," Mitchell says."She was really collaborative and adamant on kind of very glamorous fashion mixing with cultural references that kind of feel like the tropics, so I think her andEven in the images from theshoot, Mitchell says there are elements of his time in Cuba.
"The laundry line references made me think a lot of Havana, a lot of the history of working black women and the color palette associated as such," Mitchell says.
Wow. Long overdue.
Difficult to comprehend this truth...but really not.
Fashion is the number 1 enslaver of humanity. Workers in India, China, Malaysia, S. Korea, Japan, etc from the cotton picker to the production seamstress' human rights are completely ignored by the West.
Give an inch take a yard never satisfied
This should have happened a long time ago.
So we are now celebrating things that are not really accomplishments?
Congratulations on the dream gig I’ll probably never see!!👍🏻🙌🏻💯
I'm sure some liberal will equate this with being progress or a sign of positive change lol
Nobody cares about virtue signaling diversity from giant woke fake news corporations anymore. Nobody.
Finally💪👍