OPIA Tag

One in every of fashion’s longest-standing trends is misnaming brand-sponsored activations as “raves”. Season after season, fashion publicists will host fashion week afterparties in TimeOut venues where editor-influencers talk a bit while LSDXOXO, Richie Hawtin, or OnlyFire perform within the background. Fashion likes to align itself with the underground, but sometimes a club is only a club. “They all the time feel so serious, too,” the organisers of London’s fashion-pilled OPIA rave say over DM. “You may be camp and queer and playful while still being editorial. That’s what we’re all about. OPIA was born out of the need to showcase this queer subculture as one of the crucial progressive and non-conformist on this planet.” Mascotted by two blonde-wigged, brainless broads...