Medium: Cotton

Date: Fall 2018

Country: Italy

Credit: Gift of Off-White

​After Treyvon Martin’s death (a black teenager shot to death in 2012 for looking “suspicious” in a “dark hoodie”), the hooded sweatshirt became an emblem of systemic racism and civil resistance, particularly within the nascent Black Lives Matter movement. Virgil Abloh’s “Hoodie” for the label Off-White combines the power symbol with a play on traditional branding strategies.

Object Number: 2019.8.1