![]() ![]() "Fashion is so much like a game of chicken. Alix Higgins seems to have sidestepped this part of the process. Sophomore projects will inevitably be shrouded in moments of imposter syndrome. I just really wanted to make this collection with more earthier, grittier, dirtier, with ruined elements.” “The medieval town, god-fearing filthy peasants,” Higgins says, “this is exactly it. ![]() As I’ve come to learn, books, music, films – they all tend to arrive right on time, and when Higgins surfaced from Lapvona he was struck by its similarities with Delectable Earth Shudder. ![]() ![]() The piles comprise of gold delicately-patterned first edition volumes of William Blake, a gift from his dad which double as pattern-making weights, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson and Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh ("this is her best book"), which Higgins has just finished. Norman Fucking Rockwell! by Lana Del Rey plays softly in the background and Miu Miu, the ginger kitten Higgins recently brought home, stalks his living room, threatening to topple over the stacks of books on his dining table. Two weeks before his presentation at AAFW 2023, I meet Alix Higgins at his apartment to reprise the conversation that began last May. ![]()
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