PAUSE MEETS: Mad Bad Ting

As a multi-talented individual, what part of your career do you find most exciting? Designing, Styling or DJing?

They are all so different and exciting in their own way. I guess DJing is the most ‘exciting’ as I am performing in front of a crowd. It is quite intense and full of adrenaline. Styling is fun but very hectic. It is a lot of heavy lifting and logistics. My favourite part is when the client feels like themselves. It is so easy to let fashion mask who we are, and it’s important as a stylist to help artists share the most fantastic and true versions of themselves. I love discovering new ways to wear clothing. It’s the best feeling in the world when a video drops and everyone loves the styling!

Design is really exciting as well but it is a very long process, and there is so much risk involved. It takes hours of design (research, drawing, and cad computer work) to develop an idea or a collection. Once the idea is formed than we go into sample making which is quite long and tedious with a lot of back and forth, trying to make what’s in my brain a real-life object at a cost that the consumer can afford. Once we have perfect samples then comes loads of budgeting, logistics and manufacturing starts. While the product is being manufactured we create our marketing campaign. Creative direction, casting models, sourcing location etc. Once we have created all the content and the manufacturing is finished, we roll it all out, hope people like it and buy it so we can recoup the thousands of dollars spent and do it all again. It is actually frightening but my favourite thing in the world.

As someone who is often travelling to and from LA, Paris, and London for work, where do you like staying the most, and why?

What’s the best way to describe Très Rasché and its creative vision?

Vogue described us as ‘A New Streetwear Brand For Girls Who Are Sick of Being The Token Tomboys’. I do agree with Vogue, Très Rasché started because I felt there wasn’t any space in menswear or streetwear for women, and I love both so much. I make clothing that girls usually have to go into the men’s section to find. We celebrate fluidity and hope to create new spaces, products, and imagery that promotes open-mindedness and inclusivity. Très Rasché is determined to help erase gender categories in clothing, promote unisex products and bring more women into menswear/streetwear.

As someone who looks to break down gender barriers, how do you plan on approaching this using fashion?

I really look to Marcel Duchamp for a lot of inspiration here… Like his ‘Fountain’ sculpture, a toilet given new context, I hope to do this with menswear by reconstructing menswear and the constructs around it. TR uses classic men’s clothing items/silhouettes, such as workwear pants, and reconstructs it for everyone. Très Rasché designs are influenced by duality and bridging the gap between two opposites. Our first and most popular design is the 50/50 which is, very obviously, inspired by Yin and Yang, being that it is split directly in half by two separate colourways (black and white) but also because it is a men’s workwear silhouette repurposed as unisex fashion. Like Yin and Yang, I wanted to show that seemingly opposite, or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected and interdependent (masculinity/femininity and black/white).

Another common theme in TR is mixing menswear silhouettes with feminine appliqués as seen in our new diamanté sweatsuit. Duality, once again. I think making these very staple and easy to understand pieces makes understanding unisex easy for consumers. Although, I hope to push the boundaries further than hoodies and workwear in the future. We photograph mostly women in the products in hopes of inspiring people to rethink gender stereotypes and explore all clothing no matter the gender of the model wearing it. I really want men to steal their girlfriends TR pants and buy products from a female model wearing it.