Designer Essence - A New Work by The Fake Sartorialist

In the flurry of NYTimes /NYMag activity I have decided to launch the first series of Designer Essence:

 Vivienne Westwood A/W 2010

 Victor & Rolf Spring 2010 RTW

DSquared A/W 2010

Designer Essence tries to make sense of rampant consumerist culture. How fashion designers can be so detached from their labels that they can continue after their death (Alexander McQueen being a case in point). Where designers create a brand from themselves that is propagated around the world, then creating collections that are meant to be embodiments of those brands. At some point in the consumerist frenzy that connection is lost.

It aims to cast the viewers eye on an intellectual life-cycle, where designers create images of themselves, mass produce collections of those images and are then made to be accountable for those collections through superimposing them once again onto themselves

The Lusty SARTORIAlust at Barneys

I've been sweating like a fashionable-pig getting my pop-up extravaganza ready for the mega chain Barneys. It took me days to get stock of those Sartorialist must haves, for example, the beautiful ceramic toy pictured above.
It is hand molded by Columbian toddlers over four days in exchange for a meager pay (sometimes). But when you see it, you just know its worth it. It just leaps for joy, almost like how Kate Moss floats for a few seconds when she jumps in the air.

Secondly, I decided to make it easier for people to pick complex clothing configurations that perhaps only the very brave would ever venture to wear.

Like Mr Sequin-jock below. It took me three cross-dressing webstores, four different international versions of Amazon and two transvestite escorts to get just the right look together. Who knew that sequined jockstraps where so fiendishly difficult to get by (Dsquared should take note, the market is wide open and they should backorder now for bulk savings in the future).