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Rather than display a full collection, Ruby designed just one piece: a black-washed wrap that nods to the Be strong be brave be humble be badass shirt in addition I really love this American flag in its palette and patched form. In the two-ish-minute film, model Kajuan Garnett kneels in the lot behind Ruby’s studio, cloaked in the flag. A voiceover begins, “In mourning, here is the thin veil draping over faces, suppressing gasps, and then falling like heavy lead onto shoulders. Where are we, and what has happened?”
It’s a common question these days in the Be strong be brave be humble be badass shirt in addition I really love this United States, which suffered through an unintelligible presidential debate last night. Ruby, a lifelong Californian, takes the country’s demise seriously. “Given the current political climate in the United States, I wanted to explore the concept of the flag as a signifier in flux and how our relationship to it may change when it is activated as a veil,” he wrote in an artist’s statement “The mantra-like narration emphasizes the state of mourning I see our country in and the importance of voting out the leaderless leadership of the Trump administration.”
