Designer Christopher John Rogers finds glamour in color, cartoons, and Jell-O molds. alexis_ok reports
Photo: Shikeith When Regina King presented for an awards show this past April in a strapless clementine-orange gown that melted onto the ground like just-cut sashimi, she looked like a beam of Technicolor. The dress was loud, vividly bringing out the warmth in her skin tone, and stiff, with folds that stuck up a little instead of lying flat.
“For me, there’s no aesthetic hierarchy,” Rogers told me. “It’s just a dictionary. You can pick whatever you want, but everything is the same price, whether you’re referencing Sesame Street or an 18th-century painting. It’s what you do with the thing.” By mixing those mainstream and esoteric references with shameless opulence, Rogers is pushing the boundaries of how high fashion can look and where it can come from.
After Rogers graduated from high school, he went to the Savannah College of Art and Design. There, he liked to dress with flair, wearing necklaces made of rubber bands that the lunch ladies loved. He completed the assignments the way professors wanted, his friend and classmate Sahiba Johar said, like when he sewed a traditional button-down shirt, then made one for himself that was embellished with an oversize collar.
After graduating from SCAD in 2016, Rogers moved to Brooklyn and started waiting tables. “I couldn’t find a job because nobody wanted to hire me,” he said. “My stuff was too colorful, and it wasn’t going to fit.” But at the beginning of 2017, he started working as a designer at Diane von Furstenberg, a house known for embracing prints and color. Those early days, Rogers recalled, felt like an action movie.
Michelle Obama wears custom Christopher John Rogers on her Becoming book tour. Cardi B wears a coat from Rogers’s senior collection at the 2017 BET Awards. Photo: Zach Birdsong ; Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for BET via Getty Images . Michelle Obama wears custom Christopher John Rogers on her Becoming book tour. Cardi B wears a coat from Rogers’s senior collection at the 2017 BET Aw... more Michelle Obama wears custom Christopher John Rogers on her Becoming book tour.
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