Black Fashion Fair's Debut Publication Sold Out Immediately
Black Fashion Fair began on Twitter in 2016. Antoine Grégroy, who tweets under @bibbygregory, started a thread titled "Black Designers You Should Know." He launched naming Shayne Oliver, Maxwell Osborne, and Azede Jean-Pierre, and his tweets soon became Black Fashion Fair, an online library of Black designers and Black-owned brands.
The mission of Black Fashion Fair, per the site, is to “focus on fashion related specifically to the contributions of Black designers and the impact of Black culture,” and to “tell the often forgotten stories of Black designers while also documenting and preserving Black fashion: past, present, and future.”
Ahead of 2022 New York Fashion Week, Black Fashion Fair released its first print product: Volume 0, a 200-page book that highlights historic and emerging Black designers.
The book, a limited edition publication, which was launched in partnership with the eyeglass brand Warby Parker, features three covers: model Aleya Ali in Pyer Moss, photographed by AB+DM (Ahmad Barber and Donte Maurice), model Joan Smalls wearing Theophilio, photographed by Quil Lemons, and Maria Borges wearing Sergio Hudson, photographed by AB+DM. Within its pages, it explores Black representation and fashion, and features essays, photography, and interviews. Within two days of its release on February 7, Volume 0 and the companion collector's edition sold out online.
"I want to be able to give us something tangible," Grégory told Vogue of his desire to create Volume 0. "There’s so much Black fashion history that wasn’t documented and preserved. Not in libraries, not in museums. Volume 0 lays the groundwork for us to become our own reference and institution of discovery and research. Black designers, Black image makers, we all deserve to contribute to the canon of fashion in a meaningful way."
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