[Music]
Hey, guys. I am Dilone.
I am being challenged to customize a t-shirt with leftover fabrics with Tommy Hilfiger.
Challenge accepted.
[Music]
Hey, guys. I am Dilone. I'm a model and I’m from Long Island, New York.
And I don't know what else to say.
I feel like I'm doing a casting call right now.
Three words?
Compassionate.
Understanding.
And strong.
I don't look as strong as I look, but I'm pretty strong.
My favorite emoji to use is probably the side-eye smirk though.
[Laughs]
Erykah Badu, André 3000, and Sade – that’s my band.
So, let's start designing.
We'll start with picking out the fit of the t-shirt.
So, we have the regular tee,
we have a sleeveless tee or a cropped one,
or a like a cold shoulder.
I'm into like a boyish box tee.
Then, I guess we should just go with the one we're seeing on the screen right now.
Okay!
What would you like to add to your tee?
So, I think it would be great to
bring some awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement.
So, we could get in font
“Black Lives Matter” and then just play around
with where we're going to place it. Have some different ideas to actually…
Sure.
All right, so I have the quote over here.
I love it like that. If it was a little bit more centered though,
I think that'd be cool.
I'm choosing for my quote to say black lives matter because
there's been so many deaths this year and
honestly for the last 400 years,
black people being murdered and there not being any justice around it.
It's really heartbreaking and I know
I'm half black. I have family that's black.
I have friends that are black and if I don't speak up for this,
then it's saying that like I'm accepting it.
I'm in London at the moment and I so wish that I could be in New York
with the protesters protesting right now.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Maybe something on the back?
We have the patches, the numbers, and the letters.
Maybe we could create the BLM or…
Yes!!!
Yeah?
Okay! Okay, BLM
patches on the back, genius!
Because I was thinking that we couldn't do more than two,
but if we could do three, that would be…
I mean I think we can… I am so excited.
This looks incredible, this looks incredible. Yeah, that’s perfect.
I think it's so cool that Tommy Hilfiger is taking
the opportunity to say this in
this collaboration together because
we can't be afraid to talk about it that there are black people dying
around the world but specifically in America
and at disproportionate rates
just because the color of their skin.
They're looked at as a threat and they're not a threat.
We all have, there's no such thing as equal rights in
this country and I want to be able to highlight this movement
so that people understand that it's not just some trend.
You don't all of a sudden get to post one time
a black photo on your Instagram post and say that
you care about black lives, this is an opportunity
that we all have to take to really learn and unlearn
what systemic racism is really about and how it's also within ourselves.
Something else that I find really interesting is how
there's so much new design coming out with
me creating materials that are sustainable or biodegradable
and you know, I believe in climate change
and the fashion industry has a really big part in
being able to turn global warming around honestly by just
creating sustainable clothing, and not being so wasteful.
So, I think that this project is really sick because I'm still
in favor of being sustainable. Great!
Anything else you would like to add?
I think this is the final design.
I love this.
I love this, this is so cool.
Yo! What's up? And I just finished customizing a t-shirt
with Tommy Hilfiger.
I'm so excited about the design.
I think the message is beautiful and now I pass the challenge on to you.