Photo: Inez and Vinoodh/Burberry
Burberry is looking to the runway and beyond for its latest campaign.
For its new Autumn/Winter 2022 campaign, which is centered on community and unified self-expression, the British fashion house tapped a slew of models includingIrina Shaykand members of theCompton Cowboys, the Los-Angeles based nonprofit organization responsible for reviving Black cowboy culture for a younger generation, to model its reimagined pieces.
“Building upon the house’s code of duality, the campaign is a study of different identities,” the house noted in a statement, adding that the womenswear and menswear collections “come together to present a daring recombination of distinct Burberry codes and a fresh proposition for the future.”
Burberry’s chief creative officer Riccardo Tisci collaborated with photographers Inez and Vinoodh and stylist Lotta Volkova to merge the past and future legacies of the brand.
While the womenswear collection is an ode to the brand’s classic designs and introduces new bold and delicate pieces, its tailored menswear nods to the Compton Cowboys with a “modern reinterpretation of the Equestrian Knight Design — a symbol of our community spirit revived from the Burberry archive and highlighted throughout the collections.”
Inez and Vinoodh/Burberry
Thevideo campaignshowcases some of the group’s members, which includes nine cowboys and one cowgirl, in avant-garde pieces while they stride down the road on their horses.
“Burberry has been dedicated to helping communities through many programmes, from enabling access to the creative industries to championing organizations making a difference around the world,” the house further stated on its continual efforts to uphold community voices.
In February, Compton Cowboys founder Randy Hook spoke to PEOPLE on hisgroup’s inspirational missionand his personal connection to the organization.
"My homies and I are all here today because we had horses," Hook told PEOPLE. “But so many of our friends and family didn’t have that. They fell victim to the streets or ended up in jail, strung out on drugs or dead. Now we’re using horses to reach the next generation, to keep kids off the streets and make them into decent human beings.”
Randy Hook with the Compton Cowboys.Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times via Getty
The Compton Cowboys, Hook’s initiative to expand their outreach, has now become a global social media phenomenon (they’ve garnered close to 200,000 followers) that’s collaborated with high-fashion brands, pioneered social justice movements and, most importantly, empowered the youth.
“We’re changing kids' lives and making it dope to be involved in your community and be civically engaged,” Hook, a father of two young sons, shared.
source: people.com
