Now, let’s take a deeper dive within the (political) subjects which run like a thread through this show. Firstly, Abloh contours the unconscious biases still instilled in the brain of the society and the intellectual purpose of Black consciousness. ‘As Black people, trans people, as marginalized people, the world is here for our taking, for it takes so much from us’. By Saul Williams and Kai Isaiah Jamal.
Secondly, this show has got a great amount of references from his African heritage. The colors, the patterns, the cloth are absolutely beautiful. Moreover, he wanted to implement parts of his memory from his parents within the collection. Too powerful. Abloh told a source: ‘When I grew up, my father wore Kente cloth, with nothing beneath it, to family weddings, funerals, graduations. When he went to an American wedding, he wore a suit. I merged those together, celebrating my Ghanaian culture’, he said. ‘She was the one who taught me how to sew; and she learned it with a tailor in Ghana’, said Abloh, telling about his mother and how she influenced him. He referenced the pattern of the print on the green and white motocross suit from a fabric his mom had when he was growing up.