Making a fashionable statement of a powerful kind.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Supervillain, a celebrity fashion designer with clients including Ashanti and indie film icon Miranda Bailey, today is releasing a Pre-Roe v Wade Newspaper print women's suit made of a collage of a gazillion clippings of real newspaper articles of the chaos from when abortion was illegal in America. This summer, the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade, making abortion no longer federally legal in America.
"I have collected hundreds of these real stories and printed them in a collage covering a women's suit so that the suffering these women faced when abortion was illegal in America will now interrupt polite society, " says Supervillain.
Photographs and video of the suit detail the articles of women who died getting literal back alley-abortions Pre-Roe, including a women's real death certificate printed on the back. Doctors who were arrested for performing abortions, and the story of one woman who was arraigned from her hospital bed for receiving an abortion. A story of a wife and husband who were both arrested and charged together for receiving a then-illegal abortion. The front leg features a section of a page from a real newspaper that reported on a doctor being charged for performing an abortion procedure, and a white man being charged for sitting on a segregated bus beside a black man – on the same day.
The lapel features an image of a woman laying w wreath on the coffin of Dr. David Gunn, a Tennessee doctor who was assassinated for performing abortions, mugshots of The Janes – who ran an underground abortion network in Pre-Roe Chicago, Françoise – the leader of an underground abortion network across pre-legal abortion Europe, and Jane Roe.
The suit was made as a collaboration between Supervillain and his client Miranda Bailey, the producer, director, and actress behind films including the Oscar-nominated classic Squid and the Whale, Super, and Swiss Army Man, which previously drew headlines when she announced she was pulling the production of her film 2019 film Time Capsule out of Georgia in response to a recently passed Anti-Abortion Law.
Miranda and Supervillain previously collaborated for her Trans Rights "Y'All Means All" pink studded leather jacket worn to the 2022 SXSW premiere of Miranda's film "Split At The Root." Miranda asked Supervillain to create a piece of clothing for her to wear to the 2022 South by Southwest premiere of her immigration documentary in Texas after the state's Governor Greg Abbot had issued an "Anti-Trans" directive to investigate the parents of transgender children for child abuse.
Miranda wished to protest Abbot's actions – which would affect her as the parent of a trans child but felt she had to attend the Texas premiere of her Rosario Dawson and Lana Parrilla co-produced documentary. So, she and Supervillain came up with a pink leather jacket decorated with over 600 studs all painted in the colors of the trans-pride flag. The back features the state of Texas in Trans flag colors, with the words "Y'All Means All" hand painted by Supervillain and many pro-Trans patches.
Today, Supervillain is releasing the Pre-Roe newspaper suit for sale to the public, in sizes 2-10.
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