NEW YORK (AP) – This Fashion Week, designers have come up with widely varying ways to comment, either overtly or not, on the nation’s political situation. Naeem Khan decided to use poetry.
As the final design made its way down the runway on Tuesday – a grand, glistening, golden bridal gown, with a gold floral crown and a cascading veil with a black-and-gold train – the soundtrack played Maya Angelou reading her poem, “Human Family.”
“The variety of our skin tones can confuse, bemuse, delight, brown and pink and beige and purple, tan and blue and white,” the poem reads in part.
It closes by saying, three times: “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
Backstage, Khan spoke about President Donald Trump’s travel ban and its potential impact on the fashion industry.