Object: T-shirt
Designer:
Willi Smith
(1948 - 1987)
Date: 1990
Medium: Cotton
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Matthew Olszak
Object number: 90.56.12
DescriptionWILLIE SMITH set, T-shirt, coordinating pinback button, press kit
Label Text:Willi Smith died of AIDS in 1987. The next year, Manhattan borough president David Dinkins proclaimed February 23 to be Willi Smith Day, in honor of Smith’s “significant achievement in the fashion world.” He was a quintessential New York designer, taking inspiration from street styles and Harlem church ladies. He aimed to design clothes for “real people.”
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Black Fashion Designers