JAY-Z WEARS A T-SHIRT BY KENYAN FASHION DESIGNER BLKBURD GENES

American rapper and business mogul Shawn Carter also known as Jay-Z was seen leaving Giorgio Baldi Italian Restaurant in Santa Monica rocking a Lamu Riyadha Mosque T-shirt designed by Kenyan designer Zeddie Loky of Blkburd Genes.

Jay-z was photographed as he left the restaurant on Tuesday evening March 30. He was wearing a Blkburd Genes “Lamu Riyadha Mosque” t-shirt, a Cactus Plant Flea Market luxe velvet work jacket that riffs on stoner culture, Planes “Altitude” shorts, Ballroom Marfa trucker hat in turquoise, Ray-Ban sunglasses, a pair of Planes x Stance “Sketched” socks, and a pair of PUMA Ralph Sampson sneakers. The t-shirt is priced at Sh21,000 ($195)

On Blkburd Genes website that particular t-shirt is sold out. Modeled by American fashion model Jeremy Meeks, the images in the t-shirt are inspired by Riyadha Mosque in Lamu which was founded in the in the late 19^th century, and has since provided both basic Islamic education to children and higher learning.