THE MISSING THREAD

Harris Elliott

Shows like ‘The Missing Thread’ just don’t come around. Curated by the Black Oriented Legacy Development Agency (BOLD) aka Harris Elliott, Jason Jules and Andrew Ibi, the Somerset House exhibition showcases the immeasurable and unsung influence Black talent has had on British fashion since the 1980s. Here, the successive generations who have been excluded from or misrepresented in mainstream narratives are finally given their flowers via a series of immersive installations that contextualise the cultures and concerns that have shaped them.