Rill Nice By Rill the Winner Avant Garde BLM competition Harlem Fashion Week

We, the contestants had to design a piece on what Black Lives Matter means to us in fashion form

 The HAT is a Reflection of the hats that my ancestors worn while pick cotton that made Caucasian financially rich and the branches are were my ancestors were hung but the face at the end of the branches are my people that were murder by the police

The Crop Top the neck line represents the great Malcolm X and the holes are bullets holes that pierced innocent black bodies. The back has arms that are up  which says Don't SHOOT

 The Braces are African adornments that gave that special touch of my heritage / Style

 The Skirt is a hoop skirt at the waist line I stylized with pleats (Black women has major style) On the front are words that has oppressive situation that plagued the African American community which is written in paint:

Self Hatred

1994 Crime Bill

4 Lil Black Girls

Arkanas 9

Black Wall Street

Prison System

Flint Water

Gentrification

Black Girl being Sex Traffic

and so on so and so

At the bottom of the skirt are names of Black GREATNESS for example: 

Ida B Well

Malcolm X

 John Lewis

 Eunice Johnson

Ann Lowe

Thurgood Marshall

Serena Williams

Prince

 Tupac

 Mike Tyson

Fubu

Andre Talley

 Zora Hurston

Pearl Primus

 Bessie Coleman

Micheal Jordan

Oprah Winfrey

 and the list goes on and on

The back of the skirt is pleated in velvet with a huge Black crystal bow that represents

 BLACK Excellence