Joey Arias has been collecting the work of Jeremy Scott for over ten years, finding personal connections with his outlandish work and maximalist world.
Ten years and about 700 pieces in, there’s no other way to put it: Joey Arias is deeply devoted to Jeremy Scott. “I’ve amassed what seems like a ridiculous amount of clothes for one person,” Arias tellsin this latest episode of “Devoted.” As if to prove his point, he’s wearing a silver metallic leather crown from Scott’s first men’s collection for Moschino for fall 2015. “But truly, it’s an archive that’s a labor of love, and I wear the pieces on a daily basis.
Off-business hours, that is, because Arias is a Dallas-based clinical operations manager for a mobile dental company and he usually wears a uniform–blue scrubs, to be specific. This Arias’s collection encompasses toys, accessories, jewelry, and ready-to-wear, the full gamut of Scott’s tongue-in-cheek world.
Many of the pieces in the collection are personal to Arias, items from Scott’s universe he deeply relates to. Some shining examples include the two handbags he showsThe first, his favorite item, is a McDonald’s Happy Meal bag from the designer’s first collection for Moschino. The second is a toothpaste tube crossbody bag. “Working in the dental field, I just had to have it!” he quips.
Another piece Arias singles out is a Moschino fall 2017 menswear harness sweater. “I was prior military, I was in the Air Force,” he reminisces while looking at the piece. “And I was always fascinated by the harness gear that some of the emergency vehicle drivers would wear, or the stuff that the pilots had. It’s a bit bondage inspired, but it’s directly inspired by flight suits and the harnesses for their parachutes.
“As a child, my sister’s Barbies were fashion-ready, and we would play with them, but I grew up being told that’s not what boys do, or that men don’t care about what they wear,” he says, recalling the times in both his early life and adulthood when he was told to dress a certain way, or act a certain way in order to appear less “gay” and more manly. “But when I came upon Jeremy’s work, it just awoke something in me. The kid in me saw himself playing with these life-size Barbies on the runway.
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