{"id":137062,"date":"2026-02-18T06:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137062\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:09:30","slug":"ice-out-pins-are-all-over-new-york-fashion-week-and-the-red-carpets-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137062\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cICE Out\u201d Pins Are All Over New York Fashion Week and the Red Carpets\u2014What\u2019s Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past, the industry has engaged with politics primarily with a message to register to vote\u2014a somewhat tepid initiative that waves a bipartisan white flag in order to not alienate potential consumers. This season, despite the fact that it\u2019s a midterm election year, saw the majority of the industry avoid any political discourse<\/a>, with few exceptions. Hillary Taymour of Collina Strada, Henry Zankov, Christian Cowan, Patricio Campillo, Rachel Scott of Diotima<\/a> and Proenza Schouler, and Rio Uribe are among the designers who wore the pins at their runway shows. Scott and Uribe also addressed the political landscape both as part of their collections and while speaking with reporters. \u201cIf you have a platform of any form, you need to be saying something about what\u2019s happening,\u201d Scott said after her Diotima show<\/a> on Sunday, \u201cespecially in fashion, which operates in the realm of culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

These pins are, by design, \u201can entry point into other things,\u201d says Jess Morales Rocketto, the director of Maremoto, an organization and fund dedicated to amplifying Latino storytelling, who created the pins with her friend and co-organizer Nelini Stamp, director of strategy at Working Families Power.<\/p>\n

The campaign itself came together immediately following the Good\u2019s killing in January. \u201cIt was the week or a few days after Ren\u00e9e Good was murdered by ICE, and the video was kind of everywhere,\u201d says Stamp who, together with Morales Rocketto, plus partners at the ACLU and the National Domestic Workers\u2019 Alliance, got to work, quickly. \u201cThe Golden Globes were happening and we thought we could get a pin on the carpet as a symbol of solidarity,\u201d she says. Once the pins were created, they deployed an assortment of Hollywood contacts\u2014agents, celebrities, and more\u2014to bring them into the Golden Globes<\/a>. \u201cPeople had pins in their purses to give out. It was grassroots,\u201d Morales Rocketto says.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s how Ariana Grande ended up wearing a pin at the ceremony<\/a>, which was handed to her by Mark Ruffalo. \u201cAfter the earned media response was, I would say a little surprising to us, \u201cwe knew we were onto something, \u201c Morales Rocketto says.<\/p>\n

Later in the month, Hollywood descended into Utah for the Sundance Film Festival and the \u201cICE Out\u201d pins made their way to the likes of Natalie Portman, Olivia Wilde, Zoey Deutsch. \u201cThe interest was crazy,\u201d says Morales Rocketto. And then came the Grammys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the tipping point because politics were all people were talking about,\u201d Morales Rocketto says. Billie Eilish, Finneas O\u2019Connell, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and other attendees donned the pins as winners including Bad Bunny and Olivia Dean spoke about immigration<\/a> during their acceptance speeches onstage. The next step was to reach beyond Hollywood. Enter: New York Fashion Week.<\/p>\n

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Billie Eilish, Carole King, and Finneas O’Connell at the Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n

Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images\"Image<\/p>\n

Patrick Milligan and Joni Mitchell accept the Best Historical Album award at the 2026 Grammys.<\/p>\n

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