Issue 13: YES WE TAN.
It could be the worst scandal in US history. Yesterday marked 10 years to the day that then US President Barack Obama’s controversial tan suit took the stage. Global headlines, a Wikipedia page, a thousand tweets later and we see Kamala Harris make a surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention in – you guessed it – a tan suit.
So what can Harris’ choice to playfully nod to Obama’s “scandal” tell us about convention and, more specifically, when to subvert it?