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00:00How are you? You look absolutely gorgeous. Can you tell me a bit about what you're wearing tonight?
00:05Yes, I'm wearing Charles Harbison, and he was inspired from the film Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash.
00:12And in that, it's a story of a family of women from the Gullah Islands in 1902 who are getting ready to make their way north.
00:20And there's beautiful, beautiful cinematography in there.
00:23And there's one iconic scene of all of them in their gorgeous white gowns on the beach with tattered parasols and whatnot.
00:31And just claiming their heritage and their culture and trying to hold on to it before they move north.
00:36And so that was his inspiration.
00:38Well, how amazing that you got the chance to express that tonight with this theme.
00:41What was your reaction when you heard tonight's theme?
00:44Oh, I was so thrilled. I was so thrilled.
00:47You know, honestly, I thought, it's about time. It's about time.
00:52And someone said, someone just asked me where I think, you know, our black creativity came from and why is it what it is?
00:58And I said, because when we were taken away from our motherland, that's all we had.
01:03All we had was ourselves, our souls, our bodies.
01:07And from that, we survived and thrived.
01:11And who are some of your fashion icons when it comes to dandyism?
01:14Dandyism. When it comes to dandyism, my granddaddy, may he rest in peace.
01:20He always looked sharp.
01:22Most of the men in my family, actually, my dad, too, was a sharp dresser.
01:28That was important to them.
01:29It was important to the culture.
01:30It was very important to them.
01:32You look right and you do that not only for yourself to claim and be proud of yourself,
01:37but you do that for our race.
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