Back Stage ONE LOVE Clothing Fashion Show
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THE ONE LOVE STREET TEAM
ONE LOVE
Believe it. Believe it still exists
in the 21st century when the world has undergone rampant change.Believe you
might find it in the unsuspecting eyes of a child whose gaze reflects only
warmth.Believe it might creep between the lips of first love or the embrace
of two brothers, two friends.After imperialistic expansion, manifest destiny,
after the holocaust, after African Diaspora, after World Wars I and II After
Moses, Abraham, Jesus of Nazareth, Mohammed, Sidartha In a suburban home where
two brothers of mixed descent stumbled upon a belief that always was. Embedded
within the drawings, colors, and lines of young artists.
One Love
Believe
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The clothing line
ONE LOVE was founded in the year 2004, when Truth a.k.a. Aaron Carretti the
youngest of the Carretti brothers painted a scene filled with manipulated
characters of his childhood and imagination in his traditional ink-blot style
mix of urban culture and tribal African art entitled, One Love. The acrylic
painting so inspired everyone who saw it that it was entered in a local contest
and voted to be put on display in the city's library. Consequently,
it wasn't only family and friends who enjoyed the paintings spirit,
style, and originality it was stolen from the library's archives.
Public headlines did there best to retrieve the painting, but the culprit
never came forward. Refusing to let a single thief own an illuminating idea
that was meant to unite people and directly connect the artist with the vein
of humanity, Aaron made preparations to do the impossible, recreate what was
a spontaneous vision.
Aaron again sat down
and painstakingly recreated what many believed to be his first masterpiece.
As the characters slowly began to come alive for the second time in different
ways, both David and Aaron realized that what the painting was embarking on,
was a forgotten spirit of unity and beauty that held compassion and truth for
not only the Carretti brothers, and not only those from their area, but humanity
as a whole. David started brainstorming ideas on how best to reach the world
with Aaron's creativity and the two decided on the clothing line to represent
their vision. A way for people to connect with the spirit of the artist who's
paintings, writings, and influences (no matter the theme) seemed to orbit around
a central underlying thesis: One Love.
The brothers dug up
Ace's old sketchbooks and writings, scrapbooks and paintings, journals
and diaries and etched out what would be the first set of designs for a clothing
line that would ultimately embody all the creativity and respect the two brothers
felt about those whom they loved, those whom they knew and those from other
cultures whom they had yet to meet.
When you wear One
Love apparel, you are not wearing a clothing line. The design embedded into
the fabric touching your skin is a canvas. At some point an artist was staring
wildly at his unfinished pattern, a chaos of ink and hoping that his lines would
do the template justice. There was a moment of conception where an abstract
thought became a tangible vision. Where colors and realities mixed together
to form beauty and truth.
One Love as a sentiment
was never born or created. It is like the scent of a perfume whose components
have always existed yet never been presented or mixed to create that particular
scent. It is like a drum or piece of furniture carved from the wood of the earth.
It is like the way you've always felt, perfectly described in the words
of a song written by someone you've never met. It is what we share. It
is the umbilical chord of humanity, the foundation of compassion, and the spirit
of understanding:
One Love
