![]() ![]() Sampha’s soulful harmonies proclaim You're Free. Elysia Crampton’s spoken word installation plays through a sound system transported from Notting Hill Carnival. A Realness, a thread connecting the streets of Paris to Dakar, Kingston to London. Meanwhile, Second generation windrush - the Rockers step out in minimal utility shirting in cornflower blue, lime green, and hybridized jeans paired with square toed perforated leather mules. Enter the new spirituals, a band of blessed innocents all in white linen flowing robes, leather gloves, they wander the streets singing hymns, collecting vanities. He joins a crowd forming to hear the street preacher’s sermon, a character informed by Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Renaissance friar Savonarola. ![]() In the spectacle we find serenity in the effeminate son - a beautiful boy painted in the hat of a Magi, an Archer’s gathered silk tracksuit and patchwork boots by Manolo Blahnik. From the East, a procession of Byzantines progress through Florence in handmade harlequin leathers. Close to the heart, West Indian arrivals give fresh language to UK streets, tailoring to harsher winters, finding warmth in the functionality of fifties duffels and duster coats in Beuys grey and British tweed. ![]() Histories speak to one another, the canvas of pilgrims, travellers, migrants. A flowing parade of energies, dialects, styles. ![]()
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