COMOCO x Sheila Bridges fashion collaboration features easygoing, upscale styles with a purpose that are anything but casual

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — A new fashion collaboration is a love note to Philadelphia from one of its famous daughters, and an effort to replace a history of pain with well-deserved pride.

“I thought it would be a fun way to introduce people to, you know, cheesesteaks and hoagies and scrapple and water ice – or wooder ice, I should say, like I normally do,” says designer Sheila Bridges. “Of course it wouldn’t be Philly without it being a Philly Jawn, right?”

Bridges is part of a new fashion venture that has a perfect back scrawl on a set of hoodies and T-shirts.

Bridges is West Philadelphia-born and raised and is now a New York City interior designer. Her work appears on magazine covers and in some of the most elite homes and offices.

But in this more relaxed venture, she is collaborating with Stephen Satterfield, culinary expert and host of “High on the Hog,” the Netflix series on African American cuisine.

He now also runs COMOCO Cotton, a company that champions goods made with cotton grown by Black farmers.

“We move the cotton through the supply chain, all the way from the cotton gins to spinning mills to knit factories and ultimately finished goods,” he explains.

These clothes are super soft and easy to wear, but the intentions behind them are anything but casual.

For many African Americans, cotton evokes slavery and sharecropping, brutal work and little to no pay.

But Satterfield and Bridges say this is a new birth, raising up the skill and industry of the ancestors while giving Black growers today platforms and profits.

“For me, Stephen was writing a new chapter for that story and a story that is of pride and respect and, you know, really an origin story,” says Bridges.

They are reminding everyone to remember the history and the knowledge that came across the water, the generations of heart poured into the growing, and the continuing legacy in a multi-billion-dollar industry and economy.

“Our tagline is ‘Reclaiming Cotton’,” adds Satterfield. “And there is so much power in that reclamation, that narrative reclamation and, of course, that narrative reclamation.”

And it’s a hit: The first COMOCO x Sheila Bridges run sold out.

But they have restocked t-shirts and hoodies, and offer many other items made with COMOCO cotton.

To see or purchase their designs, CLICK HERE.

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