A new collaboration sees Ralph Lauren unite with the quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama
Wallpaper | 30.07.2026 22:20
The quilters of Gee’s Bend, a remote community in Alabama’s Black Belt region, have been practising their craft for over a century. Rooted initially in survival – quilts were stitched together from old work clothes, fabric scraps and flour sacks to keep warm in unheated homes – the practice has been continued by generations of Black women, who have used quilts as sites of ‘history, memory and kinship’, as Diana Budds wrote when she visited Gee’s Bend for Wallpaper* in 2025.
