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SMITH IDENTIFIES SQUARELY AS AN INSIDER. “My own family, this is my source,” says Smith of the inspiration for key elements of his upcoming show. 40 THE RED BULLETIN
Paula and Debbie Ouch. Photographer and date unknown. PAUL SEPUYA, OUCH ARCHIVE/BEQUEATHED TO AKEEM SMITH One day, when he was 6 years old, Akeem Smith brought a dose of chaos to his primary school in Kingston, Jamaica. He had popped a pair of colored contact lenses into his eyes and strolled into class like it was no big deal. Except, of course, that it kind of was. “It was havoc. Everyone wanted to see,” he remembers, a smile stretching across his warm pillow of a face. The contacts, given to him by an aunt, weren’t in themselves outrageous. They were a fairly standard green or hazel, the kind that were trendy in the late ’90s and early 2000s. But at an age when many children are just mastering the dexterous art of tying their shoes, Smith had already planted himself in some far-off, fashionable future. In a life peppered with evidence of what he calls eccentricities, this was an early confirmation to Smith of what he’d come to suspect about himself: that he was a little bit different than many people around him and a lot more willing to announce it. As a child, Smith registered contacts-gate as permission from his family to honor and pursue self-expression through style. It was something cornily like destiny, then, that he would go on to establish himself as a quietly radical figure in New York’s fashion world, planting left-of-center ideas that would trickle into the mainstream. His CV includes work with the avantgarde, post-identity brand Hood By Air, the legacy Note from Photo Morris to Sandra Lee on the back of a photo. Chromogenic print, 1999. house Helmut Lang and resourced, cool-obsessed newcomers like Yeezy and V-Files. But from the vantage point of time, Smith, now 28, can identify another, more complex motivator underlying his experimentation. Born in the U.S. but raised in Jamaica, he was acutely aware that the gulf that separated him from his schoolmates and neighbors in Kingston wasn’t just stylistic. It was also structural. The ability to travel and to make a life beyond the island offered access to a whole new world. For the less fortunate, limited global mobility often meant limited possibilities. “I think I was doing things to show that I was a foreigner,” he says. Even as its cultural production has for decades been a galvanizing global force in the worlds of music, fashion and dance, Jamaica sits at a complex THE RED BULLETIN 41
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