Tee Rico by Lin-Manuel Miranda Partners With BCFA Amidst COVID 19 Relief Efforts
Lin-Manuel Miranda is an amazing Broadway star and composer. Possibly his best known work has been on the beloved musical, Hamilton. In 2016 he opened his own merchandise shop called Tee Rico. A quick peruse through his online shop boasts numerous collections, a wide variety of apparel as well as other fun merch including: stickers, pins, and song lyric sheets. All of the designs have been created by artists that mean a lot to him. In addition, Lin’s family dog, Tobi, is hidden within each design.
Tee Rico is known for giving a portion of its sales back to charity, events, and other programs. Lin has found a way to use Tee Rico to help those being hit the hardest during this global pandemic. That is where the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BCFA) Fundraiser Collection for Theater Workers was born. BCFA started a fund to help those in the entertainment industry who are struggling during the COVID 19 pandemic and Lin decided to launch a new collection on his site with 100% of the proceeds going to this fund. This new collection includes T-shirts with a Lin-Manuel face-time logo as well as other long sleeve and hoodie options.
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit star, Mariska Hargitay, shared a photo of herself wearing one of the hoodies and holding a Lin-Manuel Face-time stress ball to twitter last week, urging people who are able to donate to this important cause.
Amidst the chaos of the world today it’s encouraging to see people banding together (while being socially distant), to support those in need. While production on all films, TV, and theater has temporarily halted some of those in the entertainment industry are very hard hit. That is why it is so important it is for BCFA, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mariska Hargitay and others to support this cause. I’m grateful this pandemic has brought out the good in many people, it gives us hope for humanity.
Report: Rebecca Vanderkooi
At the rise of Covid-19 many of us first questioned the timeline of fashion week and would we see the regular calendar continue - the question weighed over many of us for months! It was refreshing to see design houses and designers across the globe take advantage of the uncertainty and plow into production mode - thus my interest in Jerri Reid New York - The Black Designer based in Brooklyn New York wow’d instagram with his latest collection paying homage to the Black Is King film which debuted earlier this year in July. I was taken aback at quick of a turn round the young designer produced and released his well crafted designs reflecting some of the films most memorable moments.