"The strong Afro-Latinx and Caribbean heritage found in Miami was a major source of inspiration for the campaign. It was essential to honor the fluid environment the artistic community down south has created, leading stylist and creative director Nadia Wolff @naandia and photographer Diana Eusebio @dianaeusebiostudio to actively seek out Black and genderfluid talent to elevate their vision, from models Starr @pbx.tv and Angel Ilona @fathalleberry, to assistant Nathan Turnage @nathanturnage and all the way to makeup artist Christina Lee @sightofstina.
‘The way that Black people embody trans-ness and genderqueerness is really specific and beautiful and complicated. It exists outside of a Western mainstream — often white — understanding of trans-ness as a consequence of colonial violence and the erasure of indigenous embodiments of gender,’ said Wolff. ‘There wasn't necessarily a distinction between something being femme or masc, which is also something I respect about a lot of Chromat pieces.’
Liberating and defiant are often two things that come to mind when describing the cult-following Chromat has accumulated over the last few years — it was only right to center the label's ethos into every step of the production process."
-@balencianas for @papermagazine