Photos by Emma Craft, 2018.
Zoe Whalen Season 5 @ Purgatory
Conceived as a way to thematically fit the collection to its presentation location - a gravestone carving facility turned club - the audience was to experience the garments as a part of a performance symbolizing the journey of life to death. Ephermal curtains enshrouded the models at first, as they discovered a new world, finding audience members and themselves as objects of fascination. As they wove through the crowd they became bolder in their antics, folding into themselves or consuming the space around them. There was a break in the performance, where an a capella performance by New York hip-hop artist TWO32 ended the performance as the models buried him alive with petals on stage.