{"id":1216,"date":"2016-01-09T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T23:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/09\/african-slavery-inspires-beautifully-haunting-fashion-show\/"},"modified":"2016-01-09T07:36:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T23:36:02","slug":"african-slavery-inspires-beautifully-haunting-fashion-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/09\/african-slavery-inspires-beautifully-haunting-fashion-show\/","title":{"rendered":"African slavery inspires beautifully haunting fashion show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The TL;DR fashion review: Strong collection, emotional and thought-provoking. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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LONDON \u2014 A catwalk star was bornGrace Wales Bonner<\/a> debuted her collection in London on Friday, at London Collections: Men.<\/p>\n

The designer drew inspiration from African slavery. Entitled “Spirituals,” the collection was about black spirituality at its core. <\/p>\n

“Spirituals are choral harmonies sung by African slaves in the United States,” she explained in her show notes. “Communal practices of song and dance invoked the sacred as a means to defy corporal suffering and escape into the spirit.”<\/p>\n

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The TL;DR fashion review: Strong collection, emotional and thought-provoking. LONDON \u2014 A catwalk star was bornGrace Wales Bonner debuted her collection in London on Friday, at London Collections: Men. The designer drew inspiration from African slavery. Entitled “Spirituals,” the collection … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[723,825,788,824,823],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-fashion","tag-lfw","tag-lifestyle","tag-menswear","tag-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}