SHOCK-RA (Prophesy collection)

PROPHE­CY 'The ris­ing sun, the earth be­neath our feet. All that is nat­u­ral, yet all that is yield­ed by hand. It is sim­ple, yet com­plex... an­drog­y­nous; all spir­it.' A con­tem­po­rary cloth­ing line by Ge­of­frey Davis, Shau­na Hess, An­to­nio Mongillo, Mark Per­os, and Colleen Warn­er. This line fea­tures a mar­riage of tra­di­tion­al men's tai­lor­ing with the youth­ful en­er­gy of 'street chic'. Proph­esy fea­tures tai­lored dress pants, a pleat­ed dress skirt, tai­lored blaz­er, body con­form­ing knit pullovers, and a dressy, zip­pered-​raglan gauze shirt. Strong­ly in­spired by Asian and North Amer­i­can Na­tive cos­tume, this col­lec­tion in­cor­po­rates unique pieces, such as a corset, obi, butch­er's apron, loin cloth, and bolero bag; not tra­di­tion­al­ly found in men's cloth­ing. To em­pha­size this mix of eth­nic in­flu­ences and to pay homage to Cana­da's Hai­da an­ces­try, each en­sem­ble car­ries it's own unique sig­na­ture; a hand em­broi­dered na­tive crest. Lay­er­ing of such items, in a mon­tage of de­sign el­e­ments, gives the col­lec­tion an over­all the­atri­cal fla­vor. The main fo­cus of the col­lec­tion is an­drog­y­ny; through the com­bi­na­tion of mas­cu­line and fem­i­nine el­e­ments. Each item of the col­lec­tion can be mixed and matched to­geth­er, or worn sep­a­rate to add life to a stale wardrobe. Each ar­ti­cle of cloth­ing has a dis­tinct ori­gin, one may look fair­ly tra­di­tion­al while an­oth­er avante garde... yet to­geth­er they are ex­cep­tion­al!