Sue Warnke, a fashion creator, discusses rejecting traditional rules to explore her Black identity after being adopted into a white family. She combines stereotypes and traditional silhouettes with streetwear elements like basketball shorts and bold prints, aiming to spark conversations and connect people across cultures through her work.
The rules of traditional fashion are just, like, so outdated. People today don't care about that as much. What I want people to take away from my work is connecting each other through shared experiences. I was adopted into a white family, me and my brother, who are both Black, which kind of led to, like, all of the work that I'm doing now. Taking elements of I'm taking stereotypes about Black people and white people and kind of analyzing at the base level what they really are about. So playing off of, like, traditional silhouettes, but then also integrating, like, basketball shorts or crazy prints. I think something really exciting, especially in the fashion world that's happening right now, is, like, everybody's having to reevaluate how it's going to work in the future. So it's been kind of a learning curve To display my work accurately digitally. I don't take myself too seriously and my work doesn't take itself too seriously. I really admire the fact that stand-up comedians can talk about a lot of, like, really real heavy things in a way that kind of comes off more as entertainment. I'm trying to make people have conversations with either the people who are wearing the garments or with the other people in their own lives and hopefully, like, change their point
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