the logic of dreams....the headspace of dissolved identities and missed connections....
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new paths have arose....
things will be changing around here rather quickly.
can you keep up?
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"if you want reality, look out of the window" - Nick Knight
MERCURY RETROGRADE
Photo: Beguiling Images
Model: Leema Lee
Hair/MUA: Kafka Vodka and Leema Lee
BIRDSTRIKE/LIGHTSTRIKE
Birdstrike/Lightstrike
Photo: Grant Yoshino
Model: Michael Freeby
Hair: Jasmine Taylor
T.E.T.R.I.S.V.O.R.T.E.X.
Photo: Brad Mahler/M Images Models: Alexandra Mathews and Yellow Strange Hair: Jasmine Taylor MUA: Yadira Lopez
Photo: Debbi Rotkowitz
Model: Dina DeSade
Hair/MUA: David Rodriguez
PLATINUM DEATHTRAP/SHANKED
Photo: Stevan Zhao
Models: Gia Dostoevsky and Dominic Andrew
Hair/MUA: Isaac and Gia
"...the juxtaposition of haute couture and derelict architecture sours fashion's glamorous allure. yet it projects a desire to experience danger and excess, even if it is only found voyeuristically in the image. it represents an excess so extreme that it cannot be lived within the parameters of traditional fashion space, leading the spectator into heterotopic spaces where it exists...." from Bradley Quinn's Architecture of Fashion.
"to me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and inside of the human body. both go together, they cant be separated" - Jean Luc Godard
"This planet is the insane asylum of the universe" - Sylvia Browne
"when I was in Paris I tried to mold in with this concept of couture and this hierarchy, but it's just not me. I can't play that game. I think it looks stupid when designers play these bourgeois characters. At the end of the day, I'm left with the real me. What you see is what you get." -Alexander McQueen
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Music
handpainted mixtapes by resetcouture™:
all we do is party:
Movies
POP NOIR MAR09
with...
Photography Is Me
POP NOIR AUG08
RUCA GIRLS
with Hocus Focus Photography
SOUP KITCHEN
with Natalie Linh Photography
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VACANT HOUSE/EMPTY WELL
"nothing but a vacant house....an abandoned well...i try to go outside, to change vehicles, leap from one reality to another.....which moves at different speeds...."
" i remained there, still, in the bottom of a hole. it was all i could do. i couldn't even think, so profound were my feelings of loneliness and despair. i sat there doing nothing, thinking nothing. unconsciously, however, i waited for that ray of light, that blinding flood of sunlight that poured straight down to the bottom of the well for one tiny fraction of the day. it must have been a phenomenon that occurred very close to noon, when the sun was at the highest point in the sky and its light stuck the surface of the earth at right angles. i waited for the coming of the light and for nothing else. there was nothing else i could wait for...."-haruki murakami, the wind up bird chronicle.
Television
COMING UP:
angels in the red room/the lynch edits
VS.
"Trends are boring and transient. I am interested in clothes, not fashion" - Hussein Chalayan
vs.
resetcouture is an ever evolving collective of revolutionary and visionary creative rogues.
many of these projects are about those fine lines, those inbetweens, those hollow places inside and all those shadowy blurred impressions we cant put into words.
some of these shoots and editorials are in strange places that you wouldn't really expect, enhancing contrasts, drawing connections, creating patterns.
we are bold and have no fear.....we often make a mess.
sometimes thoughtfully articulated....at others strikingly raw and refreshing.
we do weird stuff that we often cant explain.......(do the words yet exist?)
we are nothing and everything all at once: elusive and vague one minute, exposed and vulnerable the next...
just when you think you know who and what we are, where we go and why we do...
we'll flip the switch.
we can be anybody, anything. we make good chameleons.
we are all constantly dreaming, nightmaring, hallucinating....
these colors, shapes, lines, forms, systems are perpetual motion, spreading magical sensations.
welcome to the future.
this is not about a specific scene or historical reference, nor is it even about fashion in general.
fashion is the current medium in our world, a space where the medium can be whatever form of untruth we wish.
these bodies represent a moment in time in our own personal developments, a transition of passage, a superconsciousness, an emergence of a surrealist dreamscape....
conceptually heavy but translated through the lens of a tokyo pop neutron bomb,
a symphony arranged, a social gesture, an intrinsic model...
the progress is constant....the contradiction inherent....the falsity weighted in doublespeak.
we are always searching for something more than what lies on the fragile surface of illusions....
slip behind the veil and meet us on the other side.
we like abstraction, surrealism and contradictions.
WE ARE AVANT COUTURE.
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BINARY/DUALITY ILLUSTRATIONS AND GRAPHICS BY COOKIE KALKAIR! www.kalkair.com
Illustration: Cookie Kalkair
Photo: Brad Mahler/M Images
Models: Alexandra Mathews and Yellow Strange
Hair: Jasmine Taylor
MUA: Yadira Lopez
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Binary/Duality streetwear line NOW FOR SALE at the etsy shop
UNISEX. GENDERLESS. ANDROGYNOUS. PANSEXUAL.
we are nothing and everything....
RESETCOUTURE ONLINE STORE @ ..resetcouture.etsy.com..
Illustration: Kafka Vodka Photo: Davey/Motophoto Model: Kaiden Blake Hair/MUA: Astrid
in regards to photoshoots... PAID or PUBLISHED work only.
trade shoots for our concepts ONLY or mutually beneficial creative collaborations (impress us?)
if you would like to use our pieces for one of your shoots,
please inquire for rates regarding wardrobe styling and/or custom orders.
WE ARE CURRENTLY NOT CASTING NEW MODELS. IF WE ARE INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH YOU, WE WILL CONTACT YOU! thanks :)
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TOUCHDOWN/INVASION
Photo: Stefhan Gordon/SHGfoto
Models: Jezlan Moyet and Dominic Andrew
Hair/MUA: Ruby DeRosier
BINARY/DUALITY
Photo: Brad Mahler/M Images
Models: Alexandra Mathews and Yellow Strange
Hair: Jasmine Taylor
MUA: Yadira Lopez
BLUE MOON RISING
Photo: Hannah Ross
Models: Julia & Joslyn of ANTM
MUA: Christina G
Hair: Christopher Sato
WARPAINTS
DISPASSIONATE FURNITURE
Photo: Adam Hendershott
Model: Alexandra Mathews
MUA/Hair: Katie Ballard and Emily Willemsen with RYDER Makeup Labs