08/28/2026
Seeing this MOSCHINO “advertisement” when I was young and open, an artist AND a complete f**k-up, was terribly influential on my burgeoning art/fashion/culture/ideology mind formation.
What I didn’t know until many years later, was that Franco created the “ads” himself! It was important to him that they were his to create, and he protected that act of creation.
To me they WERE Moschino. I wasn’t dressing in a lot of Moschino in those days, but I didn’t need to be. He was communicating to me (and everyone else) a position, a stance, his own kind of anti-fashion proclamation and yes, even radical critique.
The ads ARE his work, and some of his best.
I’ve noticed more and more, over a number of years, but most frequently and passionately now, that those of us who love (and sometimes hate) “fashion,” but are in love with that thing about IT that I wouldn’t even begin to know how to name-they are looking at “fashion,” what it means to them and their place in its world-and are raising the alarm. They are starting or continuing to speak out more and more about what is beautiful and being lost and what is ugly and being stolen from us.
And some of them, us, have some ideas.
I hope this proliferation of voices can impact the future of a part of a world and community I live for. And remember…
STOP
THE
FASHION
SYSTEM
!
