It was in November of last year - a fraught month when the pandemic was at its fiercest, Christmas was hanging in the balance and the dust was beginning to settle on our summer of discontent (much to the relief of the “let s-get-back-to-normal” crew) - that stylist Nell Kalonji and a handful of other fashion luminaries founded the Rubric Initiative.
Conceived in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement which gained peak momentum during the summer, the group s core aim was to change the industry from within, rooting out the prejudice and racism that had been part of it for so long, by way of education and activism.