A KALTBLUT exclusive. Photography by Vazha Kuchuloria. The model is Olivia Petersen. Creative direction and styling by Fet Hilario. Makeup by Cyler Daigle. Hair by Dylan Silver. Fashion brands used are 831 Minhle, Comme des Garçons, Dion Lee, Emma Joan Foley, Erickson Beamon, Pier Antonio Gaspari, and Vaquera.
Nostalgic Requiem – whispers in the fading light of autumn. In these tender seams, we grow stronger— carrying ancestral warmth into the cold, letting their spirits move with us into the future. We inherit the poetics of our predecessors —the gestures, the rituals, the beauty — and reinterpret them in our own emotional language—a romance with what remains and what still whispers.
Photography by Vazha Kuchuloria / Instagram: @_vazhak_
Model is Olivia Petersen / Instagram: @olivialpetersen
Model Agency IMG Models / Instagram: @imgmodels
Stylist / Creative Director by Fet Hilario / Instagram: @rufiopierce
Makeup by Cyler Daigle / Instagram: @cylersays
Hair by Dylan Silver / Instagram: @dylasilv
Fashion Brands: 831 Minhle, Comme des Garçons, Dion Lee, Emma Joan Foley, Erickson Beamon, Pier Antonio Gaspari, Vaquera @831minhle, @commedesgarcons, @dionlee, @emma.j.foley, @ericksonbeamon, @pierantoniogaspari, @vaquera.nyc.
Fet Hilario: “Of Japanese American descent, I was born in Okinawa, Japan and raised in Seattle. I arrived in New York in 2011 and fell instantly into the city’s electric queer nightlife. I found myself behind the bar at the legendary after-hours club The Spectrum, rubbing elbows with cultural provocateurs and visionaries—Bruce LaBruce, Luar, Telfar, Matiéres Fecales, Wolfgang Tillmans, Total Freedom, Arca, Björk, and more. It was an initiation into a world where fashion, art, and performance collapsed into each other, fueling my obsession with diversity, style, and raw fabulosity.
With a fine-art photography foundation from the Art Institute of Seattle, New York became my kinetic playground, first as a photography assistant, then as a styling assistant—where nightlife grit collided with editorial precision. Today, as a lead stylist and creative director, I bring a bold, art-driven vision to every collaboration.
My style lives in a space where contradictions lean toward each other: punk edge brushing against fine-art romance, the perverse unfolding into the sensual. Leather and lace, feather and steel, these are the words in my visual language. I don’t quite see their differences; I let their friction glow. In that heat, elegance becomes rebellious, and rebellion becomes exquisite. The perverse and the sensual are not opposites but siblings born of the same spark: the hunger to feel deeply, dangerously, beautifully.
My influences form a cinematic tapestry that shapes how I see. Drawing influence from Paolo Roversi, a dreamlike chiaroscuro; from Robert Mapplethorpe, a sculptural purity; from Sebastião Salgado, a humanistic grandeur. Diane Arbus teaches me to embrace unsettling intimacy, Nan Goldin reveals the tenderness in rawness, Steven Klein sharpens my love for dark seduction, and Tim Walker stirs my impulse toward the surreal and wondrous. This is my signature: a curated tension, a cinematic pulse, and an unwavering devotion to the exquisite contradictions that define the human spirit.
See my latest editorial features on Instagram. IG: @rufiopierce.”
