Namacheko Presents Tabula Rasa for Spring Summer 2023 Collection Namacheko has always been collaborative, and Namacheko has always reveled in history, which is itself a collaboration among lovers, imperialists, children, the elderly, princesses, peasants, sprawling empires, the tiniest intimacies, resplendent clothes, violent nudities, flashing photographs, disappearances, leathers, laces, flesh-upon-flesh, forced occupations, freedom, and so on….

THE UGLY SWAN “If this body will not act, I propose a vote of no confdence in Chancellor Valorum’s Leadership.” PADMÉ AMIDALA It is worth remembering that the fairy tale of the Ugly Ducking relies on ugliness being redeemed through exceptionalism. The Ugly Duckling is in fact beautiful because he was a swan the whole…

Namacheko’s AW21 collection emerges from the bunker, undercover, neither shellshocked nor indiferent, on expectant and reserved bodies. I imagine that their emergence must be somewhat reluctant, since within that place of safety, a hidden and excessive netherworld, there was an underground society that forged heretofore unknown identities and projected them onto the wall in 16mm…