Actress and film producer Issa Rae shines in her cover shoot for Adweek in two pieces from celebrity stylist Law Roach’s collection with designer Hervé Léger.
In a post on Roache’s Instagram page, the caption reads: “The MFing @issarae wearing 2 looks from my collaboration with @herveleger Thank you to my brother @jasonrembert.”
The 25 piece collection is planned to release sometime next month in October, with a price range from $690 to $2,900.
In an interview with Essence Roach describes the collection as paying homage to the heydays of the popular Hervé Léger’s bandage dresses.
“We all have a memory of those dresses, right”, Roach tells Essence. “It was the dress. It was the celebratory ‘I want to feel sexy,’ ‘I’m going on a first date,’ ‘I’m going to Vegas,’ ‘It’s my bachelor party’ dress. It’s a very important piece of fashion history, and also pop culture history.”
Rae has always been known to support the work of Black creatives and pushes the bar when it comes to fashion. An example of this is her Council of Fashion Designers of America red carpert in 2018.
There she wore a stunning blue Pyer Moss gown with a belt that includes the song reference “Every N***a Is a Star” on it. She also made history at the 2018 CFDA, becoming the first woman of color to host the event. In her speech, she discussed how Black culture has influenced a lot of luxury fashion brands.
“We’ve gone from having white designers study black culture to make black clothes for white people that are too expensive for black people to buy, “ she says in her CDFA speech. “To a Black man bringing Black culture to a historically white fashion house making clothes too expensive for everybody,” she continues, referencing the late and former artistic director of Louis Vuitton Virgil Abloh.