Damilare Rafiu Akoredele

Falana Blues🦋 promo photos, presskit + visuals for the beautiful @falanamusic 🧚🏾✨ Featuring rocks from my favv @legacy.world 🏜✨ Falana is wearing legacy teardrop & the old money bracelets💎 Wearing custom @louie.dray Shoes @legacy.world 🩸 Talent: @falanamusic Creative Direction: @exoticdray Photography: @lakinogunbanwo Fashion Styling: @thedamilarerafiu @exoticdray Make up: @facesbymaraan Set Design: @thedamilarerafiu Hair: @hairby_abisola Video by me: @exoticdray (shot this on my iPhone. built these clips from like zjdhs-😭 kinda cute i think but dw i go soon hot) I’m happy to finally share this. It’s been nice and honestly inspiring creating and growing with new friends. Big Shout out to my collaborators and designers. love you guys mehn. I love you I love you.🧎🏽‍♂️🤎 #exoticdray #fashioncreative #rollout #rollouts #pressshoot #creativeart #explorepage✨ #music

Still not over this shot. @nusar3000 in the streets of Lagos in WALK AWAY by supa⭐️ @iluvlamaya My favourite opening ever. Such a thrill. Costume design by me Shoutout to Lucas🫰🏾🤎🔒 mehn, you cut this to the T(!!!) this one of the most gratifying projects ever. We did this with a lot of fun, a lot of people, a lot of love, a lot of hard work, and lots of fear but we did it anyways and it was so so good. masha Allah. Talents: @iluvlamaya @nusar3000 Directed by @lucas.laverty Costume Design & styling by @exoticdray @thedamilarerafiu . . . #exoticdray #fashioncreative #alte #visualdesign #underground #visualart #niche #costumedesign #altepop #alternative #explorepage✨

He is I and I am Her. #QueerMasquerades Figures with a desire to exist, ill-understood bodies with feelings, characters carrying questions, thoughts, and dilemmas of identity, peculiarity, visibility, presence and acceptance. Costume design by me

Character preview: Figure 5: emo boy from the series Queer Masquerade🪼 . Characters carrying questions, thoughts and the dilemmas of identity, presence, existential validation and visibility. I shared an exposition on it here yesterday. If you take a moment to wander through my page, you’ll find it. when you do let it sit with you💙 . . . #exoticdray #performanceart #visualart #visualdesign #costumer #creativedesign #theatre #explore #creativeart #queerartists

Grwm for #Queer Masquerade. I love all my minions but couple of things is why “It Isn’t Clear” is my favourite of the seven characters I created for Queer Masquerade. First of all, I was very excited for its form. It was the first time I was building a sculptural body object from nothing (-nothing, I mean from thoughts, sketches, and tinx—and for the most part it wasn’t clear what we wanted it to look like. What face it would have. What its arms or legs would look like. If it would have fingers or not, and if it even needed them. The only thing we knew was the form, and the kind of being it was going to be: post-human, peculiar, a loner, thoughtful, familiar, intelligent, human, an overthinker, disembodied, and vulnerable. Lakin’s brief was surreal. Every character had a real story, a real desire. We had conversations about how they feel and what they feel in this world, so there was a pool of details to build from. Except for this character; we didn’t know how it identified. It just wasn’t clear. So I leaned into building a figure that feels more like a presence—like a being that wears its first skin as its clothes. The embroidery work on its body is a constellation of swarovski crystals: clear, mint, sky blue, beige and cerulean tones. I wanted the embellishment to suit him absolutely but also to look like its energy source. Like veins, like its core energy pathway mapped across its body. We also wanted It Isn’t Clear to be humanly relatable but also resisting gender, or a clear identity.

Omo Grandma when are we going home? #QueerMasquerades Figures with a desire to exist, ill-understood bodies with feelings, characters carrying questions, thoughts, and dilemmas of identity, peculiarity, visibility, presence and acceptance. Queer Masquerades is a personal narrative of finding harmony between camouflage and radiance-fitting in and standing out-embodying the spirit of the masquerade in the modern world. This series asks: Who am I in the shadow of who you know me to be? What pieces of those identities do you and I hold on to? Why? What are the costumes we wear as we dance in, around, away from, and closer to the truth(s)? Who can we be if we substitute the burdensome pieces for lighter ones? By adopting the metaphor of the masquerade, this body of work challenges conventional perceptions of gender and sexuality, considering the multifaceted nature of identity and troubling the collision of identity, acceptance and self-expression. For LAKIN studios. Costume design by me Muse - @oghenekewenelson Concept Styling by me - @thedamilarerafiu Styling Assistant @fw_ette & Divine Fidelis Video (shot&edited) by me - @thedamilarerafiu #exoticdray #fashioncreative #visualart #visualartist #costume #performanceart #théâtre #queerart #fyp

Egunmogaji #queermasquarades

emo boy. #queermasquerades

Figures with a desire to exist, ill-understood bodies with feelings, characters carrying questions, thoughts, and dilemmas of identity, peculiarity, visibility, presence and acceptance. Queer Masquerades is a personal narrative of finding harmony between camouflage and radiance-fitting in and standing out-embodying the spirit of the masquerade in the modern world. This series asks: Who am I in the shadow of who you know me to be? What pieces of those identities do you and I hold on to? Why? What are the costumes we wear as we dance in, around, away from, and closer to the truth(s)? Who can we be if we substitute the burdensome pieces for lighter ones? By adopting the metaphor of the masquerade, this body of work challenges conventional perceptions of gender and sexuality, considering the multifaceted nature of identity and troubling the collision of identity, acceptance and self-expression. Costume design by me Styling by me For LAKIN studios.

This series asks: Who am I in the shadow of who you know me to be? What pieces of those identities do you and I hold on to? Why? What are the costumes we wear as we dance in, around, away from, and closer to the truth(s)? Who can we be if we substitute the burdensome pieces for lighter ones? By adopting the metaphor of the masquerade, this body of work challenges conventional perceptions of gender and sexuality, considering the multifaceted nature of identity and troubling the collision of identity, acceptance and self-expression. For Lakin Studios Muse - @oghenekewenelson Concept Styling by me - @thedamilarerafiu Styling Assistant @fw_ette & Divine Fidelis Video by me -@thedamilarerafiu #exoticdray #fashioncreative #visualart #visualartist #costume #performanceart #theatre

Queer Masquerade🪼 . Characters carrying questions, thoughts and the dilemmas of identity, presence, existential validation and visibility. I published a poem for this here yesterday. You will find it if you explore my page. It will do you good 💙 . . . #exoticdray #performanceart #visualart #visualdesign #costumer #creativedesign #theatre #explore #creativeart #queerartists

To be Told it isn't Clear- For Lakin Studios. One of the seven characters I created for an ongoing photography series. The Queer Masquerades -Figures with a desire to exist, characters carrying questions, thoughts, and dilemmas around identity, visibility, presence and existential validations. Costume Design by me Creative Direction - @lakinogunbanwo Muse - @koladehughes Concept Styling - @thedamilarerafiu Design & Styling Assistant @fw_ette & Divine Fidelis Film: Edited and Shot by me (from scraps of bts)