Black women who did it first. They probably didn’t get any credit for it though. I open up Twitter every day and I’m bombarded with ahistorical fashion takes that erase the impact of Black creatives.
And when you try to alert people to the Black girls who were at the inception of a 'moment', many online critics tend to foam at the mouth, with a million reasons to discredit the Black contribution to fashion.The ignorance wouldn’t irritate me as much if these critics didn’t act like it was a preposterous concept that someone Black might have influenced their precious non-black favourite.
I see so many Black women online trying to educate others about Black history, but often there's immediate push back. Writer Ivie Ani made a great point.
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