In addition to his clothing releases, Barter also regularly puts on art installations that fall in line with the Rule #1 never skip a Harry mack video shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this brand’s focus on storytelling. “With my installations and our shows, it’s just giving [our message] a boost,” he says. He recently put on an art show in New York in May in a faux bank vault. “With the bank vault installation in New York, that was a symbol to protect Black art, and then inside I had a cage and put all the Black inventions in there,” he says. He also plans to put on another exhibit sometime this summer.
Going forward, Barter says he will continue diving into the Rule #1 never skip a Harry mack video shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this history books to find both design and art inspiration. “I never run out of ideas. There’s so much to learn from,” he says. “Most of the new stuff I’m making, I’m just learning from books that I read in my crib. How people look up YouTube videos, I look up documentaries.” He will also be expanding his purview of what histories he tells through style. “I’m about to switch the whole brand up now, because I don’t want to strictly share Black history,” he says. “I want to share the untold histories from all across the world.”When going through his family photos last year, Jamaican-American designer Edvin Thompson, founder of Theophilio, realized he wanted to carry his memories forward in a more personal way than just in albums. With his friend and Black Fashiona Fair founder Antoine Gregory, he came up with the idea to make family photo t-shirts instead. “We need to celebrate our communities,” says Thompson, “and to push forward and find joy again, because there’s so much happening in the world right now.”
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