PANTS ARE PANTS
No. Seriously. Why did I make this? Where did I get the bright idea to make a “Unisex” fragrance and then the even more illuminated idea to have “one-of-one” art installation wearables? Well, for some reason, it involves the gender binary. No, wait, don’t x out the page yet. I always looked around and (I’ve gotten into arguments about this) believed that clothing doesn’t have a gender. Like it’s all become so damn arbitrary when in reality it’s a piece of cotton or hyper stress-tested goat liver sourced spandex to cover our asses in public. WHO CARES what people wear? I’ve always been a believer in that. There’s no such thing as “guy” and “gal” when it comes to clothing. Just look at fashion runways. Always breaking the gendered divide but never piercing the less tuned in masses. I want to be some sort of advocate for that. Nobody bats an eye in today’s Western society when an identifying woman wears a pair of pants, so why is there such pushback with men in skirts, men in dresses? Men can’t even be in a crop top without a few wayward stares. It’s never that deep. You only have one life. People can’t possibly live worrying about what other people choose to wear when they leave the house. It’s the epitome of useless pandering.
Fragrances, in my book, are the same. I feel like (especially in luxury houses) there is a clear divide on scents made for “him” or “her”, and the components of each are pretty evident. Florals and clean fruits for the lady, and for the suave gentleman, a rugged musk smoothed over with wood or something, idk. The point is, I want to make scents that are ODD. Things that destroy any sense of what is expected and, in doing so, create an experience and aesthetic that is completely detached from gender or even tired classics. I want to create an introduction into a world where stories are told through individual viewpoints, and anybody, I mean ANYBODY can relate to them. At least at some level, somebody will. The Dopey Sun is where I plan to cultivate feelings and emotions that I feel are trapped in the cycles of our hidden worlds, and bring them to the forefront. I want imagination to be the star player, not just another sandalwood and patchouli cologne with a celebrity taped onto the promotional images.
Most of all, I want to disassociate with the luxury and the polish that other brands are dealing in. When I first got feedback for this site, a common denominator was that I didn’t present “luxury” and that is a thing in the perfume world…… like. Bro. I’M DOING MY OWN THING! Maybe I’m delusional for thinking I can get by with this unpolished, weird, alt, and frankly trashy way of doing it. But it’s mine and I’ve committed to not changing the vision for anybody. That’s what it means to be truly authentic.
Pants are pants, but my pants are not going to be your pants.
