Bash Back Bomber from the MELGAARD collection, 2017. Courtesy of Red Bull Arts New York. © Bjarne Melgaard
Bjarne Melgaard Designed a Bash Back! Inspired Bomber Jacket
Gasp!
Art world sweetheart Bjarne Melgaard dropped a capsule line for New York Fashion Week referencing Bash Back! on a bright orange bomber jacket.
Bash Back! was a network of anarchist queers that wreaked havoc on transphobic and homophobic spaces, slashed tires, showed up at Democratic National Convention counter-demonstrations, and committed other acts of anti-fascist vandalism between 2008 and 2012. (If you'd like to learn more about this crazy time, I recommend reading the book Queer Ultra Violence — Bash Back! Anthology.)
I can think of one or two folks who would love to get their hands on this look...
Ripley Soprano is a co-owner and co-conspirator of this here magazine. They co-founded the student movement news site Youngist.org, are a creative director of the antj-prison streetwear line 1971, and a consigliere to BRUJAS.
