Penitentiary Prada? Incarcerated Fashion Designer Debuts New Clothing Line From Behind Bars

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In 2017, Jordan Peele transformed a $4.5 million budget into a $255 million phenomenon, our ancestors somehow survived the brutality of slavery on neckbones, and entrails and weโ€™re still struggling to understand how Country Grammar ever became a thing.

But when melanin magic courses through your veins, ingenuity knows no boundsโ€”even when youโ€™re confined to prison. As evidenced by this video that surfaced on World Star Hip-Hop, in which an inmate didnโ€™t let his prison sentence deter him from being fresh as hell if the feds watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7pfEv1nff0

Most would deem an idle mind โ€œThe Devilโ€™s Playground.โ€ But in an outfit that could best be described as vintage Sean John chic, an unnamed inmate dripping in finesse brags on his conjugal visit-approved attireโ€”which he presumably created himself.

โ€œI made the logo out the mat, you feel me?โ€ he says, showcasing the bunk bed he stripped down for materials.

Iโ€™m not sure if thereโ€™s much of a market for Penitentiary Pradaโ€”or what our Entertainment Staff Writer Tonja Renรฉe Stidhum called โ€œFederal Prison FUBUโ€โ€”but despite his circumstances, itโ€™s dope that the incarcerated individual in question isnโ€™t allowing his talents to go to waste.

I see plenty more โ€œprison industrial short setsโ€ (thank Staff Writer Michael Harriott for that one) in his future.

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