Stacey Abrams

And so I'd love to just know how you're thinking about the role that the fashion industry is playing in this overthrow of democracy.

I'm so glad you raised that.

And I appreciate your very thoughtful engagement because as much as there are 10 steps to authoritarianism and autocracy, I believe there are 10 steps to freedom and power.

And two of my favorite steps are step six, which is disruption.

We've got to disrupt those things that would steal our joy.

We've got to disrupt those moments or those industries or

the facility of authoritarianism to change who we are or what we expect.

And then we have to deny.

We have to deny dominion over our language, over our fashion, over how we express ourselves, because part of authoritarianism is this intention to deny you personal freedom, and part of fascism is to deny you identity.

And so my FYP has been gushing over how the Black-owned brand, Actively Black, held their fashion show in New York Fashion Week called This Is Not a Fashion Show.

And they featured civil rights pioneers and their descendants walking the runway.

You had Ruby Bridges.

You had Dr. Bernice King.

You had the civil rights photographer Cecil J. Williams.

Given what you've just described and given how we are watching this assault on the Black community, on immigrants, especially immigrants of Hispanic descent, how have and how should we understand disruption and denial of authority to those who would try to take it from us in this current moment?

So Hillary Clinton faced relentless scrutiny of her wardrobe when she ran for president in 2016.

When Kamala Harris was running for president, she often wore suits in very bold colors, and she cycled through different styles.

When I ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, nobody who looked like me had ever run for that office before, much like me.

Secretary Clinton and Vice President Harris.

And that meant that, personally, I had to be very careful and very thoughtful about my fashion choices.