Gartruche courtesy of IDAL Models is seen wearing: Power Suit by Ilara Lepore, Headpiece by David Oldenburg, Keyring by Luke V Smith and Shoes by Natacha Marro.
A KALTBLUT exclusive. Photography by Luke Nugent. Creative Direction by Luke Nugent & Luke V Smith. Models are Gartruche, Jet, Sakeema, Moon. Styling by Luke V Smith & Felipe Mendez. Make-up by Joe Brooks. Hair by Michael Moon. 3D art by Nik Gundersen. Words by Kezia Parkins. Production & BTS – Rosie Cartwright.
When the chaos of now simmers down, who and what will be left to pick scraps off the bones of the society we once knew?
Will the “weirdos and freaks” — whose creativity is so often forced underground before being leeched on by the mainstream — have their day, as the last of normality is swallowed up by a pandemic and the world is engulfed in flames?
The new-age punks are waiting in the wings.
Suffocated and stifled by a life locked down.
Expression compressed by financial woes.
Freedom, an almost distant memory.
Youth pent up, frustrated and forgotten.
Desperate to unleash their individuality and have their creative “coming-out.”
Who will they be when they are allowed to emerge after so long confined, starved of the rights of passage afforded to their heroes of generations past?