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September 13, 2018
By Snobette
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Pyer Moss Pushes Back On Criticism Of $125 Price For ‘Stop Calling 911’ T-Shirt

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September 13, 2018. 1 Comment

October 30, 2018: Pyer Moss has announced one final restock of its “Stop Calling 911 on the Culture.” Priced at $125 plus the cost of shipping, the shirt will be offered in four colors on pyermoss.com starting at 7:00 PM EST.

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Final Restock — 4 Colors. Today at 7P EST on pyermoss.com. As always, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the innocence project at the end of this month.

A post shared by Pyer Moss (@pyermoss) on Oct 30, 2018 at 10:59am PDT

October 27, 2018 update: Pyer Moss’ “Stop Calling 911 on the Culture” shirt in both black and white is now sold out. The shirt is not available anywhere else other than pyermoss.com so beware of counterfeits.

Read the original story below.

New York-based label Pyer Moss showed spring 2019 in Brooklyn last week with a collection of men’s and women’s offerings that won rave reviews. The collection was a celebration of the black experience as viewed through the lens of Kirby Jean-Raymond, a CFDA-nominated native New Yorker who’s background is Haitian.

In a nod to recent events highlighting women people calling 911 on black people going about their lives, the collection included a t-shirt reading “Stop Calling 911 on the Culture.” Priced at $125, the t-shirt was available to purchase on pyermoss.com following the show with 15 percent of sales donated to The Innocence Project, an organization that exonerates the wrongly convicted.

None of the above was good enough for outrage Twitter where a commenter weighed in on the shirt with a comment that read, “This shirt is $125 with abolitionist messaging on it, shamelessly capitalizing off the deadly predicament the culture is in.”

While retweeted over 1,300 times, the label received support from multiple people who pushed back on the idea that a black designer can’t speak to issues of inequality impacting black people, as well as the idea that a $150 is too much to charge for a s designer t-shirt.

In response to the tweet, @wowiwrite wrote, “so nike can use serena + kaepernick as marketing tools to sell sneakers but a black designer is not allowed to use his art to reflect his experience as a black man + use the $$$ to donate + employ other black people?” to which the Pyer Moss account responded, “Self-hatred is so deep rooted and perverse. We won’t stop though. We’re building everything.”

Regarding pricing, Pyer Moss retweeted a thread that began, “People are freaking out about a $125 Pyer Moss top (really, y’all? Really?), so it’s time to explain economies of scale and why an indie designer CANNOT reasonably give you the prices that you see at H&M.”

In the end whether it was the Twitter dust up or the fact it was a really good t-shirt by a talented up-and-coming designer, the “Stop Calling 911 on the Culture” t-shirt sold out with a day or two of being listed on the site.

However, there are still “We Forgive You” t-shirts available on the site, priced very fairly at $125!

Check out the Twitter exchanges below.

This shirt is $125 with abolitionist messaging on it, shamelessly capitalizing off the deadly predicament the culture is in. https://t.co/JfpHG8V26h

— William C. (@williamcson) September 10, 2018

Shameless capitalizing

THANK YOU to everyone who purchased a “911 On the Culture” Tee. 15% of proceeds will be donated to The @innocence Project — an organization that exonerates the wrongly convicted.

— Pyer Moss (@pyermoss) September 10, 2018

Innocence Project

Self-hatred is so deep rooted and perverse. We won’t stop though. We’re building everything. https://t.co/ZLA1Oap4Cj

— Pyer Moss (@pyermoss) September 11, 2018

Self Hatred

Thread https://t.co/AbLhq4q3Z3

— Pyer Moss (@pyermoss) September 12, 2018

A Thread

Uncategorized Kirby Jean-Raymond Pyer Moss

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