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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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2 Apr

Rick Braukis is the firestarter behind SZA’s hypnotic visual

Rick Braukis is the firestarter behind SZA’s hypnotic visual
The pyro producer talks ‘accessible chemistry’, EDM, and getting a load of white powder through international customs Picture a ‘scientist’ or ‘chemist’ and your brain might (unfairly) imagine the visual equivalent of a ‘total nerd’, probably wearing a lab coat or something. It’s almost definitely not Rick Braukis, a chemical specialist who carries out experiments in Prada dresses and heels, and handles flaming compounds in her underwear. Her Instagram is an enigmatic mix of quad bikes, awe-inspiring nature, horses and high fashion: plants with iridescent leaves, neon stripper heels, and flaming knives. Braukis was recently credited as handling “fire and glow” on SZA’s “PSA”, the primary teaser of recent music round her much-hyped SOS...
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