Time to highlight another one of our wonderful thesis students, @quiningham and his thesis “Desperately Seeking Denise”: How Three Women Fashioned and Refashioned Mid Century Trans Femininity’
Jacquin (Quin) Cunningham is a writer and fashion researcher currently living in Brooklyn, New York. He completed his BA in Fashion Journalism at @fccsm and worked for @kerrytaylorauctions where his academic interest in the history of fashion began.
His academic work primarily lies at the intersection of queer embodiments in fashion and personal styling through printed media. This has taken form in research on mid-century transsexual self-representation as in his thesis, early Black drag performances in Washington D.C., French anarchist style in Paris, and a reading of ‘The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve’ triptych’s fashion anachronisms as costume drama.
Learn more about Quins work at our symposium on April 10th! RSVP via the link in our bio!
“Issey Miyake understood knit as the great equalizer, A Piece of Cloth that could be a universal fit, any size, stretching for all! Spooner’s collection obliterates such hope with knitted jacquards bonded to silhouettes of stiff cardboard packaging. ‘Elegance is refusal,’ said Coco Chanel.”
@thomaswspooner “Cutlery” for @artforum in Top Ten: Fashion.
Thank you @mathewlinde_01 for the feature and words and @bellybelial for reaching out about our image.
Image: @quiningham
Model: @ava_ark
after months of edging you all about it @piss_mag has come… in print!
you can pre-order your very own rag at pissmagazine.com live now!
In 80 MASSIVE pages, PISSUE 1: American Revolution is about the psychotic Americana I imagined when I was living in London and missed home (complete with psycho Jesus and “American Gothic” murderesses) and opening the front door naked into figuring out what it actually looks like to be an American today. And it’s sooooo gay!
With @iamjackpowers by @thejoaquincastillo • American Psychos with @iferrourke & @mylesmansfield • @lavenderzinesarchive • Lucas Hilderbrand’s “The Bars are Ours” • @homocommunist • @karlheinzweinberger • @ericjess by @mixed__greens • @amandapandaba with @quiningham on Marsha P. Johnson & Picasso’s Assholes • @maxi_foshee_ on the Furry Debate • @ella.slater on Sally Mann • @julia__silverberg on Bianca Censori and more!
stay pissed ;)
A book washed up on the beach for @renatoadbras MA collection “Thereness”. Favorite spreads and my writing about Renato’s meditation on Nazaré and moments of being:
“Thereness is about capturing these moments of being in organdy, jersey, cotton and wool. Memories are carefully stitched together to create a feeling of happenstance beauty as if the clothes had never been made, but picked up off the beach after a long day watching waves crash under the yellow sun. While the name of the collection comes from the writing of John Berger, Bras makes clothing like the poet Ruth Stone wrote her works. At the edge of a river, Stone would listen to the wind and the water, waiting for a poem to come to her on the breeze. As it floated by, she would run after it hoping to catch the poem and write it down before it blew away. Bras’ river is the Atlantic ocean at Nazaré. He knew right where to stand to catch this feeling because he had been there a thousand times. “I didn’t have to make anything up, it was all just there.”
With notes from John Berger, Rachel Cusk, Adolf Loos and Audre Lorde.
Images, text, design and production: @quiningham
Fashion: @renatobras
Model: @ella_pound
Printing: @csm_publications
Today I woke up thinking about the 400 slides that Grandpa left me and how beautiful it is to look at places that simultaneously still exist and never will again.
It was 1954, Jerry was discharged and newly graduated from Yale, so he and a friend travelled throughout Europe and briefly Morocco with slide film and a car shipped from London. He really only ever picked up a camera like this once, and I wish he didn’t stop because I think he was pretty good at it. 70 years later and it all feels like an austere myth of a world only just waking up.
