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Elena Velez is not particularly concerned with your discomfort, or so it seems. Her explosive and aggressive show was an urgent wake-up call, and a challenge to the industry to do and be better. Underlining that point, Velez sent a model down the runway carrying her CFDA Award like a bludgeon. Accolades are nice, but they don’t pay the bills.
“Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour,” the first fashion exhibition to be held at Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas, just closed, and there were plenty of both of those qualities in Velez’s collection. The designer said she had been looking at “prairie wives, and lot lizards, and trucker culture, and all of these things that are deemed unglamorous by cosmopolitan standards and then trying to refract them into a way that feels new and fresh; kind of like the new heroin chic from the Midwest.
Many of the materials Velez used, including canvas, looked homespun. “I like to lean into the radically plain. I feel like that’s the next zeitgeist that I want to capitalize on. I feel like everything right now is just so synthetic and acidic and frenetic,” she said. In actuality the designer explored both extremes. This was a multisensory show; the live, loud industrial music established what might be described as an amphetamine-fueled pace.
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