Charles Jeffrey’s London Fashion Week livestream raises money for UK Black Pride.
, talking about how he was galvanized into action to raise money for UK Black Pride tonight. “I mean, that’s how it all started, at Vogue Fabrics [the East End venue owned by Lyall Hakaraia] when I was a student. I thought if I could do it then, I can do it now.”
For London’s first digital fashion week Jeffrey had a virtual version of one of his exuberant party scenes planned, a teaser for the ‘top-up’ collection of t-shirts-and knits he went to huge lengths to put together in quarantine.
Singer-songwriter Rachel Chinouriri—at 21, named by the Evening Standard as one of London’s most influential young people—appeared wearing pieces from Halina Edwards’s master’s collection. She’d researched the significance of the 18th and 19th century Ghanaian flag-making tradition in the British museum before lockdown. “They were used to scare off the opposition in war. And every year, there’s the Fetu-Afahye festival on the Cape Coast where they are used symbolically to ward off disease.
And there we have it: Nothing will change until UK society faces up to the truth about the British Empire, and embraces the myriad cultures, identities, and genders that belong to its communities. That spirit has always been at the center of Jeffrey’s Loverboy company; he’s ushered LGBTQIA+ performative happenings into the center of London fashion-consciousness.
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