Mellány Sánchez’s new exhibit honors the the migrant labor force who helped solidify New York’s place as a leader in high fashion
Photograph by Bre Johnson/BFA. Image courtesy of Abrons Arts Center.
Released between Labor Day and throughout the duration of New York Fashion Week, the installation asserts that the city’s current prominence as a global fashion capital is, in large part, owed to the labor of its garment workers. New York once boasted a robust garment industry, relying on mostly women laborers hailing from migrant communities.
Obtaining these contributions was a matter of linking the designer’s ethos to LES’s history as a cosmopolitan hub of garment work. “It was about figuring out the ways that they are storytellers,” Sánchez says, “and the ways that the stories that they tell connect to that work.”Photograph by Bre Johnson/BFA. Image courtesy of Abrons Arts Center.
The exhibit additionally displays ephemera from the ILGWU’s heyday, with donations from organizer Lidia Correa and labor icon May Chen: political buttons, a newspaper photo of women on the picket line during the 1958 dressmakers strike, even bedazzled hair barrettes spelling outPhotograph by Bre Johnson/BFA. Image courtesy of Abrons Arts Center.
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