Meet DJ Chapel, known to his followers as dualityjunkie.69, a multidisciplinary designer who warps early aughts Lower East Side style with Black queer culture. Here, he answers a few questions about the booty sag revival and his imaginative designs.
. Chappel makes unisex clothes based on the two sides of his own experiences: his time in and out of the closet, and his time in and out of New York City.
DUALITY JUNKIE: Literally. Absofuckinglutely. I grew up in the Lower East Side, and I had the privilege of being comfortably gay at a young age because I was exposed to it—but I also grew up in the hood. I moved out of the city because I really couldn’t do with a lot of weird interactions I was dealing with there. It’s like having to choose between expressing yourself and pretending.
THOMAS: Exactly. Speaking of ceremonies, I have a theory that a lot of your references are from the Wednesday night Bible Study era in 2009. THOMAS: Your work feels like Afropresentism. It’s anchored in the past and future—because anything that Black people do in the present is futuristic. Us laughing, dancing at a party, simply being, that’s Afropresentism.
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