Elena Velez

So I am actually the reigning queen of Chicken Coop Couture and will be addressed as such

Glittering internet artifact. A portrait of contemporary tribal diplomacy - the final form of clan warfare for the last great western men.

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@SELFIMMOLATI0N and when i actually showed up I WASNT ON THE LIST

i got away with it

@_casscore @jacobwgallagher @nytimes A famous rich person got you to sign an NDA? Some kid said a naughty word on the internet? Miss Rachel ass culture!

@_velcel @jacobwgallagher @nytimes "he's used confidentiality agreements" is a huge stretch lol

Bizzare assertations from @jacobwgallagher @nytimes about the reasons designers "dedicate their lives" to their craft - in his mind selling a great shirt, perhaps in ours, contending with the palpable sensation of the times through the body. (1/2)

what does SNEAKO even believe?

Institutions have collapsed. Awards & accolades are totally immaterial (I won most of them). Only way to build a creative enterprise today is to form an airtight, value aligned base. How people respond to artistic provocation separates the wheat from the chaff pretty effectively

(3/3) Lastly Marylin Manson isn't as contested of a figure as "fashion girlies" think but to get to the bottom of this would require stepping outside of their cultural echo chamber and facing the unflattering reality that for some brands, you just aren't the target audience.

Breaking news: fashion designers reveal a trend.

Based

@DollPariah @GQMagazine They swear I make these things up just to piss people off.

@GQMagazine BAHAHAHA @_velcel

From Gigachads at Gucci to Patrick Bateman cosplay at Tom Ford, fashion designers are mining the internet’s most obsessive male-beauty subcultures for inspiration—and creating an unsettling cultural feedback loop in the process. gq.com/story/looksmax…

Zoo York spray painting their logo on roaches in NYC & letting them loose for an ad campaign (2008)

@SaschaAmato Beat me to the shape store fashion show

Caucasian burkas erasure at LV

God works in mysterious ways (in my case last minute budget cuts from the rocky WB merger).

@dsonoiki You can just do things

GQ’s handling of the backlash to the Clavicular profile is a good example of how retarded everyone was during Peak Woke (2017 - 2022) A few weeks ago, GQ did a fashion week profile of Clavicular. 20 of the most annoying, miserable, and hysterical people on the internet complained “He’s a Nazi. He says the n word. He was just dancing at the club with the Tate brothers and Nick Fuentes to the Kanye Hitler song! How dare you platform him?!” GQ didn’t take the story down. GQ didn’t apologize. GQ didn’t react in any way 2 weeks later, does anyone even remember the backlash? Or even the profile itself? Those 20 people have found some new thing to be upset about because that is what those types of people do They are losers who are perpetually in search of things to be offended by But from 2017 to 2022, major brands decided to let those very people dictate their HR and comms decisions, issuing statements, firing employees, and promising to “do better” just because losers on the internet were upset

Marilyn Manson opening Enfant Riches Déprimés. Just tacky and desperate.

@SaschaAmato The craving for moral clarity and tidy conclusions is a small souled inevitability of media literacy decline. I don’t mean to inflame the viewership by pointing that out - I just work too hard to limit myself to it. My work is (unsatisfyingly) made for this sort of retrospect.

Whether it's high IQ to enjoy Elena and Matières Fécales work or not, they are, at the very least, both making people talk (or - quelle horreur - consider the source of their aversion to the shows). Only provocative and conceptual art (whether it is "GOOD" or "WEARABLE" is entirely irrelevant) can do that, because the fashion industry has a tendency to commodify any artist. Basquiat is a Zara shirt. GG Allin is a Raf dress. Most new collections are now stillborn. If you want conformism, the Paris fashion week is full of it. The fashion commentators online know this. Most designers have to repeat themselves with very small innovations because they're owned by a financial group that will nix them if they don't provide clickable campaigns four times a year. What do these campaigns say? What do they even innovate? Matières sent sex dungeon monsters down the runway. Elena sent down sexy immortal monsters for the current age. Both shows hinted at wealth and horrific, amazing power. Fashion is mostly monstrous, created mostly by the powerful - no use handwringing that Michèle Lamy is a witch and how Peter Thiel funds Clavicular (I imagine the skeletons in an Arnault closet would make Thiel blush). The puritan schoolmarming on both the left and the right is voiced in a very similar tone - "they can't show a sex demon on a runway", "they can't show a right-wing Patrick Bateman on a runway". Why not? Anyone? Sorry for the rant I just hope more people can reach a point in their critique of the world that goes beyond just 'current thing bad' before becoming professional critics.

@bryan_johnson Fixed it

@bryan_johnson Amazing timeline

identity through physicality