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22 Apr

Meet the Rick Owens collaborator backsliding into the primordial

Meet the Rick Owens collaborator backsliding into the primordial
“He deserves the world,” says Constantine Kaloutas, a half-human, half-fan-throated lizard otherwise referred to as ἄnthromorph. In 2021, the artist received a notification that Rick Owens had donated £5,000 to a GoFundMe account she had created to assist subsidise the prices of facial feminisation surgery. “He was one among my biggest donors after which he reached out for a photoshoot – working together was amazing.” Despite never having met before, the duo approach fashion (be it traditional clothing or SFX) as a technique to re-think and transgress the human body. It’s about liberating people from their fleshy confines and providing them with a vessel for transhuman change. Or, as ἄnthromorph puts it, “exploring post-human identity and redefining the binaries of human...
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21 Apr

The Punks, Savage Beauties & More – WWD

The Punks, Savage Beauties & More – WWD
Getty Images The Met Gala is one among the most important events on the style industry calendar. The annual event raises funds for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Since 1995, it has been within the hands of Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour, who has wielded her influence to show the gala into probably the most celebrity-studded affairs in fashion and Hollywood. Eleanor Lambert, a fashion publicist, organized the Met Gala in 1948 as a fundraiser for the then-newly founded Costume Institute to commemorate the inauguration of its yearly show. The primary gala was a banquet with tickets costing $50 apiece. After Wintour took over the event, its red carpet became probably the most watched. Annually, the Met Gala gets a...
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