Spring/summer 2022 COLLECTION

‘Audacious Faith’

The MARRISA WILSON New York Spring/Summer 2022 collection takes a look to the future through the lens of the 1960s Space Age and the spirit of Motown. Drawing parallels from the Space Age— amid the back drop of the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement — to today, through technological advances post-pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and the continued fight for social justice and gender equality. Bold, geometric seaming and silhouettes are cut against emotional, gestural prints, all hand-drawn and developed by Marrisa. Stimulating, powerful bursts of red—counteracted with cool blue—are featured throughout the collection; the two colors work in contrast to show the fraught balance we face in an ever-changing society. Taken together, the colors spark a sense of optimism and hopefulness for the future— because, as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., once said about what we’ll face in the years ahead, “There will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair…Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.” This collection works to tell the story of the new, digital age that is upon us, and the desire that all people— including, and especially, women of color— will have the access to participate and shape what our future can look like, together.