"Joy Run" is a continuation of the brand's Fall 2020 presentation, which explored athletics free of a gender binary.Author:Ana ColónPublish date:Sep 16, 2020With this unusual, unprecedented New York Fashion Week season allowing designers to get creative about how they use their allotted time on the calendar, Chromat decided to forego debuting a new collection and instead delve deeper into a theme it first explored back in February: gender-inclusive sports.
"Teams sports and athletics have an incredible capacity to bring people together and offer powerful opportunities to be creative and focused with our bodies. To feel fully alive," a press release from the brand reads. "We are in a moment where so much is happening on an international and local level around sports that reproduce a world we don't need or deserve.
"I was an organizer for Black queer and trans movements for over 15 years before I started making films," Tourmaline said in a statement. "One thing I always saw was that our community always finds a way to reach for joy in pleasure in the midst of challenges. Often we derive pleasure from seemingly simple things. The legendary Black trans elder Miss Major frequently talks about the joy of a cool drink of water.
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