For a show in 2012, he had his models emerge from coffins while a narrator told the audience that they died for fashion. Johnson Hartig, one of Brownes oldest friends and the founder of the fashion label Libertine, told me that although there is something draconian and a little dystopian about Brownes creative vision, its all done in a tongue-in-cheek, innocent kind of way. For the couture show, Browne had found inspiration in the opening lyrics of the song Fade to Grey, by the British New Wave band Visage: One man on a lonely platform. He described the shows protagonist, to be played by the Sudanese British supermodel Alek Wek, as a girl who comes into a train station wearing a classic gray suit who is not so happy with her life. The rest of the collection featured outfits representing various characters that the woman encounters on the railway platform, including luggage porters, gargoyles, a conductor, and a pair of high-fashion pigeons
Youre shitting me with that jacket, I say to Walter while were eating dinner
Cosmetic Condition: In typical used cosmetic condition with wear and fading in the panels as shown
Both lids hallmarked inside
