“I don’t do this embroidery stuff with the intention of being in the fashion world, I do it with the intention of being an artist. I try to bridge the gap and let people know that embroidery is art, and fashion is a way for people to get into my stuff.“
Kira Leigh 🏳️⚧️
Isabel
For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.
Protest stencils painted on the FIFA headquarters in Zurich this week.
Hope we're all a bit in love with this guy x
For the non-football/soccer types, a useful intro to this year's Men's World Cup, and whole bunches of sporty types are angry about it....
The UK govt has just admitted they can change student loan interest rates at will: time to scrsp them. the.organise.network/campaigns/ra...
And one for the committed, a long discussion of Men's World Cup histories, associated writings about football, and the reasons many care, in many different ways
Nine years since 72 were killed by corporate greed and class contempt in one of the richest boroughs in London, and still no justice for #Grenfell
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