Vogue, former Out editor-in-chief Phillip Picardi has curated an oral history of the impact of HIV on the fashion industry in the 1970s and ‘80s.
In the story, “An Oral History of Fashion’s Response to the AIDS Epidemic,” Picardi collected the memories of some of the key players in the industry and the burgeoning activist movement.
At the time, the industry had been experiencing a renaissance of creativity from a new generation of designers, including the contributions from traditionally underrepresented and overlooked Black minds.