▦ Christopher John Rogers ▦

Nikita M’Bouroukounda with @fordmodels for Christopher John Rogers, 002. Prints done in collaboration with my rainbow angel homegirl @morganfhill! 💯🌈🔥🏁🏳️‍🌈 ✨✨✨ Photo & Production: Revivethecool Hair: Wade Lee Makeup: Takanori Shimura & Sena Murashi

Christina Ripley for Christopher John Rogers, 002. Sequined tulle bonded to deadstock lurex jacquard, hand-embroidered with overdyed goose biot feathers. ✨✨✨ Photo & Production: Revivethecool Hair: Wade Lee Makeup: Takanori Shimura & Sena Murashi (at Sunset Park, Brooklyn)

Nikita M’Bouroukounda with @fordmodels for Christopher John Rogers, 002. ✨✨✨ Photo & Production: Revivethecool Hair: Wade Lee Makeup: Takanori Shimura & Sena Murashi (at Sunset Park, Brooklyn)

Nikita M’Bouroukounda with @fordmodels for Christopher John Rogers, 002. ✨✨✨ Photo & Production: Revivethecool Hair: Wade Lee Makeup: Takanori Shimura & Sena Murashi (at Sunset Park, Brooklyn)

Joseph Dupont for Christopher John Rogers, 002. ✨✨✨ Photo & Production: Revivethecool Hair: Wade Lee Makeup: Takanori Shimura & Sena Murashi

Nikita M’Bouroukounda with @fordmodels for Christopher John Rogers, 002. ✨✨✨ Photo & Production: Revivethecool Hair: Wade Lee Makeup: Takanori Shimura & Sena Murashi

Nikita M’Bouroukounda with @fordmodels for Christopher John Rogers, 002. #lornasimpson ✨✨✨ Photo & Production: Revivethecool Hair: Wade Lee Makeup: Takanori Shimura & Sena Murashi (at Sunset Park, Brooklyn)

Nikita M’Bouroukounda with @fordmodels for Christopher John Rogers, 002. ✨✨✨ Photo & Production: Revivethecool Hair: Wade Lee Makeup: Takanori Shimura & Sena Murashi ✨✨✨ The past year for me has been one of self-reflection, exploring the things that innately excite me as an artist, and producing what I want with the resources around me. I’m grateful and very humbled to be around a supportive community of diverse individuals who have contributed to, and who have believed in my vision. Optimism in spite of a social and political feeling of incertanty, celebrating difference, the nuances, and the varied possibilities and iterations of our existence and expression thereof are some missions of my work. As I’ve made these clothes over the past few months in my bedroom (lol what’s a studio?) with physical support and encouragement from friends and peers while juggling a full time design job, I’ve learned more about what I want from my work. Apart from being moved by color and injecting a sense of pragmatism into old-school glamour, I want to carve out a niche for celebratory clothes that feel honest and emotional. I️ enjoy making clothes that make you feel special and enough, and challenge you to take up space (spatially AND visually) even if you don’t feel like you deserve to. I hope this collection does that. (at Sunset Park, Brooklyn)