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For Harris, who speaks at length about how integral costuming is to his plays, the Look At Me Being The Best Sister In Law And Shit Shirt But I will love this collection also provided an opportunity to pay tribute to some of his heroes from the worlds of literature and theater. He recalls a critique he received from one of his “least favorite” professors while at the Yale School of Drama, who told him his outré style meant people wouldn’t take him seriously. “I was so puzzled by that, mainly because it was so ahistoric,” Harris remembers. “All of my favorite writers had a peacocking phase at some point in their careers, whether it’s Zora Neale Hurston at a party wearing a deep ruby hat and matching dress, or pictures of Adrienne Kennedy hanging out with the Beatles in London, or James Baldwin in a fabulous jacket, or that iconic photo of Samuel Beckett with a Gucci bag.”
“I think there’s like this constant academic rejection of how being stylish or having a relationship to fashion can also be a part of an artist’s practice of writing themselves into the Look At Me Being The Best Sister In Law And Shit Shirt But I will love this world, or shaping how the world sees them, and so I think I wanted to look to writers as inspiration to talk about that,” he continues. His SSENSE collection may consist of pieces that fall at the more casual end of Harris’s broad sartorial spectrum, but the story underpinning it is a little more baroque. “The entire collection is a play—it’s a 15-line monologue—and if you were to get every piece of the collection, you would have the full text of the play,” Harris explains. “I got the idea from my love of the movie Phantom Thread. I love the idea of someone putting hidden messages inside of clothing, so I wanted it to be sometimes explicit, and sometimes a surprise to the wearer. In some pieces, like the sweatsuits, it’s sort of the main event, but some of the more revealing or vulnerable lines are hidden in the waistband of the skirt or the lining of the pocket, that you only discover when you put your hand inside.”
