Based – Berkeley rapper Lil B’s default emotional state and spiritual mantra – what we would call benevolence, hope and positivity in the face of unimaginable daily suffering has inspired the senior year fashion collection of a recent Parsons design graduate.
The prestigious Manhattan design college which counts Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, Tom Ford and Jack McCollough and Hernandez Lazaro of Proenza Schouler among its alumni, presented dozens of final year student collections in New York City yesterday but the Lil B fanatics at The Fader keyed in on one graduate in particular, a Nashville-born Based-disciple named Isabel Simpson-Kirsch.
Speaking with the website, the Parsons graduate said the Based God not only inspired the collection’s design components (his face is plastered across dresses, skirts and t-shirts) but the attitude required to finish it.
“As corny as that sounds, that’s what the Lil B stuff is to me,” she told The Fader. “It’s just straight up positivity, love and happiness. And I love that and I love his music. I was like, I’m just gonna do an entire Lil B collection and they’re gonna have to deal with it. That’s what I did and everyone loved it. I definitely got it across.”
Check out the collection in full below.
Lil B tours nationally in June.
Via Fader
