![]() It seems that this plan has worked – he has certainly made something happen. If not then it’s just.carrying on really!”. ![]() Beyoncé wears a custom lace suit in bold colours, with even bolder power shoulders, and opts for Mohney’s jacket for her OTR II video wedding look. When Dazed asked him, “what do you have planned next (after LFW)?” Mohney said, “…if nothing comes my way or nothing happens then I’m going to try my best on my own and learn that way – I’ll make something happen as you do. Speaking to Dazed, Mohney said he is “interested in.being able to wear politics.”įor the OTR II video, shot in Jamaica, Mohney’s designs have been pared back from the realm of rubber chickens and condoms, but they’re still pretty wild. Mohney sent eyebrow-raising condom dresses, a swimming pool outfit, rubber chicken hats, and Trump mask shoes – dubbed “Trumpettos” – down the runway. But he is a CSM graduate who electrified LFW AW18, which we think more than allows us to lay claim to him as one of our own. Mohney, who originally hails from New York, is not a Brit through and through. The recent CSM graduate using Donald Trump, condoms, and swimming pools to embrace the weird and wonderful. We just wonder if he dared to put Queen Bey and Hov in pieces fished from the bin. In the past, Kamara has said: “There are so many black talents finally telling our stories and hopefully it just keeps going.” His work on “OTR II” is not his first time rubbing shoulders with the Carter family, having worked as a costume stylist on Sampha’s short film “Process”, directed by Beyoncé collaborator Kahlil Joseph. He has a self-proclaimed DIY approach to fashion, even re-working pieces found in dumpsters and charity shops for his projects. For his work 2026, which was exhibited at Somerset House, he paired up with South African photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman to imagine what masculinity and fashion would be like in the future, especially for black men. Born in Sierra Leone, and raised between the Gambia and south London, the Central St Martin’s alumni’s work merges African and Western culture in a reflection of his own diasporic upbringing. The self-titled “Sensitive Thug” is no stranger to making waves with his work, which constantly challenges traditionally held ideas of black masculinity. Ib Kamara has been on our radar for a while now. The Dazed 100-approved London stylist who put together the avant garde looks for the OTR II tour film. Speaking to The Drum, Nkiru says, “I’m a woman, I’m young and I’m black: the optics of this is still rare within my industry and the old guard is still getting used to this.” Nkiru has been exceptionally busy recently, working with jazz musician Kamazi Washington on “ Fists of Fury” and “ Space Travellers Lullaby”, as well as a recent film, Rebirth is Necessary which is described as a “personal powerful exploration of blackness”, and won the 2018 Canal+ Award. ![]() Nkiru, like the Carters, is passionate about celebrating blackness in her films, with work like En Vogue, which shines a disco ball on ballroom culture in New York's black LGBTQ community. In Nkiru’s short for International Women’s Day, Afro-British dancer Zinzi Minott lets loose in the gallery space, while Nkiru focuses on questions like “who owns what?” Jenn Nkiru, the London born and bred filmmaker who worked on second unit direction for the video, is au fait with all of this, having shot a film at The Tate last year. It is pretty clear that the “APESHIT” video wants us to question representation, power, and ownership in art. Bey and Jay renting out the whole of the Louvre (which is notoriously discerning about who they let film inside their walls) for “APESHIT” is a colossal power move. The ‘OG Peckham girl’ British-Nigerian director who helped shoot the “APESHIT” video. ![]() Below, we put the spotlight on the Britain-based talent who contributed to the jaw-dropping tour video and music video aesthetic, whether they were on hand filming in the Louvre, or putting the final stitches on Bey’s new avant-garde wedding dress. The world is shaken to its core. But while the Carters (and Mona Lisa) are at the forefront of the public eye, behind the scenes is a host of young, London-based creatives who helped Jay and Bey slay. ’03 Bonnie & Clyde, aka Beyoncé & Jay-Z, are back with the powerhouse On the Run II tour, music video “APESHIT”, and collaborative album Everything is Love, serving gob-smacking lewks and art history. ![]()
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