Photo: Andrés Altamirano
Sarah Law and Angela Dimayuga, two New York–based imaginative powerhouses, get the job done in two entirely distinct worlds. Regulation is the resourceful director of the accessories brand name KARA Dimayuga is a chef, multidisciplinary artist, and author (her debut cookbook, Filipinx: Heritages Recipes From the Diaspora, was released this thirty day period). So of program it can make full feeling for them to collaborate, right? Just seem at the apron and lunch bag — comprised solely of sparkly crystal mesh — they made.
While ordinarily their work lives may perhaps look almost nothing alike, the duo do have extra in prevalent than just an appreciation of glamorous fairly issues: The experience of being Asian American girls with intersectional identities. “Physically and culturally, I don’t in shape into society’s singular molds of Chinese, Caucasian, North American, artistic, entrepreneurial, progressive or common,” Law describes in the press materials asserting the collaboration. “I am, in fact, a mix of all of them, and my personal knowledge has manufactured me acutely knowledgeable of how identification for a lot of is multilayered. I am drawn to imaginative expressions of individuality and knowledge how individuals visualize themselves free of charge from stereotypes.”
Photograph: Andrés Altamirano.
Image: Andrés Altamirano.
For Dimayuga, foods is her car for breaking down obstacles, and the apron and lunch bag are a celebration of that. With the apron, the two desired to reimagine the daily item in full rhinestones with adjustable chain detailing, fitting into KARA’s growing selection of accessories that blur the line among outfits and bag.
The lunch bag, basically a rhinestone-coated clutch, was influenced by her knowledge of expanding up in the Bay Spot. “A lunch bag is so relevant to my upbringing as a Filipino American and my parents wanting me to sense American,” she remembers in the push announcement. “They would give me a brown bag lunch every working day, filling it with American treats like Capri Sunshine, Doritos, and in some cases a sandwich, simply because that is what the other Us citizens ended up obtaining. That was them discovering luxury. And of training course, at sure moments I would have rice and spam in my lunch bag, also, but I know that they uncovered a certain joy in giving me a brown bag lunch.”
Check out Dimayuga go through an excerpt, known as “Ancestral Whisper,” about her layered identification from her e-book in the campaign movie with KARA below, and store collaboration right here.
