在Off-White之前,在Hood by Air之前,在Supreme之前,还有WilliWear。从离开帕森斯(Parsons)时史密斯(Smith)起就是一颗冉冉升起的新星,之后他于1976年与劳里•马利(Laurie Mallet)一起创立了WilliWear,并在英年早逝的那一年1987年成为了他那个时代最成功的设计师之一。时尚、艺术、建筑和文化研究等领域的著名人物撰写的文章,再加上从未公开过的影像短效物品和短暂的历史,使《威利•史密斯》成为了解街头时装文化的历史和从20世纪70年代到今天的时尚发展必不可少的读物。
African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work.
Before Off-White, before Hood By Air, before Supreme, there was WilliWear. Willi Smith created inclusive and liberating fashion: "I don't design clothes for the queen, but the people who wave at her as she goes by," he said. A rising star from the time he left Parsons, Smith went on to found WilliWear with Laurie Mallet in 1976 and became one of the most successful designers of his era by his untimely death in 1987. Smith broke boundaries with his streetwear, or "street couture," and trailblazed the collaborations between artists, performers, and designers commonplace today in projects with SITE Architects, Nam June Paik, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Spike Lee, Dan Friedman, Bill T. Jones, and Arnie Zane. Essays by leading figures from the worlds of fashion, art, architecture, and cultural studies paired with never before-seen images and ephemera make Willi Smith essential reading for the history of streetwear culture and the evolution of fashion from the 1970s to today.
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