The American Dream Illustrated Campaign A/W 2021 ‘Colonial Black Friday’ Made some pencil drawings based on Conner’s collection; archetypes of American women and their clichés. “‘The Social Swan’, ’The High-schooler’ and ‘The Theatre Girl’, clad in varsity-centric yoga trousers, fluro elastic cycling shorts and a smart silk coat and spiky stiletto heels, feature in the tongue-in-cheek illustration ‘Colonial Black Friday’, one which draws from both the 1851 oil painting Washington Crossing the Delaware, alluding to a scene from the American Revolutionary War and images of fighting that occur at the heavily discounted busiest shopping day of the year. ‘The Social Swan’, an allusion to Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, a nostalgic symbol of Nineties minimalist style and supreme social status whose image today is emblazoned across magazine Style pages, inspires fashion collections and floods Instagram accounts, replaces George Washington, steering the ship of capitalism, as others battle around her. ‘We’re fighting over televisions. There’s no better way to depict The American Dream than that,’ Ives says.”- Laura Hawkins, Wallpaper* Thank you @connerives for the job and thank you @lauranathawkins / @wallpapermag for the lovely words.