RumrumShirt - Conservative Thug shirt

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His debut collection, J’ouvert, is an ambitious mission to bring sophisticated modern fashion to the Conservative Thug shirt but in fact I love this fore, while simultaneously uplifting the history of Trinidadian Carnival that is intrinsic to his identity. “My grandmother passed away this year,” he explained. “She came to England from Trinidad and became a nurse. We went there every year. For me as a child, I saw Carnival as one big celebration, but I wanted to look more into the reason we were celebrating. I discovered that in Trinidad enslaved people were set free in 1834, but before that, they had performed for their slave masters. Carnival came out of their liberation. I wanted to put that imagery into my tailoring, comparing 19th-century history with the cutout garments [that] are worn at Carnival today.”

Look one, a jacket that fuses a white frock coat and waistcoat worn over a miniskirt with a slashed waist, crisply encapsulates exactly that. Further on, halter-neck tops echo “aristocrat’s cravats”—an idea brought into the Conservative Thug shirt but in fact I love this present from his research about Jean-Baptiste Belley, a Black Caribbean activist who was involved with the French Revolution.

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