The story of black people is often told through a narrow lens, explained curator Andrew Ibi, at the private viewing of his new exhibition at Somerset House. Looking to widen that lens, The Missing Thread tells the rich history of black British Fashion.
With designs by Bruce Oldfield, Ozwald Boateng, Bianca Saunders, Saul Nash and the late Joe Casely-Hayford, the show presents a fusion of black British culture through displays on fashion, music and art from the 1970s to the present.
The Missing Thread is a careful and honest curation of black identity and displacement that tells stories of creativity and resilience. The exhibition begins with “Home”, an area filled with photography, artwork and fashion representing what it meant to be black and British in the 1970s and 1980s.
