This is a celebration of Black designers and Black-owned brands who are actively creating change in the under-representation of Black creatives in the fashion industry by pairing them with Black LGBTQ+ creatives and activists who inspire us every day through their vision, voices, and actions.
DIS PATER is a gay Brooklyn-based fashion designer and digital artist who fuses fashion, comic art, pop-culture, science fiction, and homoerotica into fashion illustrations. DIS PATER debuted the creator-owned sci-fan digital comic, DREAMSTATE in 2018. To learn more about DIS PATER follow @dispater_nyc or visit dispaternyc.com.