Highsnobiety
Style is personal, so therefore political. The clothes one wears requires a self-possession, a peace with who one is and who one is not, and an optimism — at times disruptive — of where one chooses to be. Picture this: a queer person of color with wing-tip eyeliner capturing first place in a marathon. This both is and isn’t about running. How about this: one of Germany’s only running collectives run by racial and sexual minorities clad in head-to-toe Ralph Lauren in the walls of a castle in Brandenburg. At display is a politics of the body: Occupying space that was not designed for them. And they occupied it anyway. This is a defiant reclaiming of space — for people who are not used to life handing them favors in the golden basket called privilege, they said fuck it and decided to do everything themselves.