DESIGNER DISASSEMBLAGE: The unlikely consortium of the Boston-based company ’47, Pratt Institute, Rochambeau designers Joshua Cooper and Laurence Chandler and musician-model Aluna Francis will be joining forces on April 27 at National Sawdust.
The fashion show in Brooklyn will be the cap-off event for the unprecedented “47 Redesign” course, which challenged Pratt students to deconstruct New York Yankees baseball hats, NFL hoodies and other ’47 dead stock to reimagine them. The aspiring designers had their work cut out for them re-creating the ’47 apparel and accessories as their own. With the help of Cooper and Chandler, five finalists got the nod to present micro-collections later this month. Francis, who has modeled for Alexander Wang and performs with AlunaGeorge, will be lending a critical eye.
How Cooper and Chandler wound up working on the Pratt project is a story in itself. A few years, ago during their CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund days, they wanted to work with the Swet Shop Boys’ Riz MC, who is now more widely known as Rizwan Ahmed, the actor behind HBO’s “The Night Of.” While designing looks for the Swet Shop Boys’ upcoming tour, the designers met his bandmate Heems, who works with the production company behind the Pratt
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