The subtle blending of performance and reality continued through the night.
The subterranean theater filled with anticipation.
Over the course of a year and a half, Magerko-Liquorice collaborated with exceptional artists to realize his vision.
PJ Magerko-Liquorice, Kristen Bateman
Jackson Wiederhoeft of Wiederhoeft, a finalist in this years CFDA/VogueFashion Fund, created sublime costumes.
Photographer Jordan Millington Liquorice, PJs husband, creative-directed the film.
HouseSpecial in Portland, Oregon, served as the studio.
Stop-motion is an infamously laborious mode of movie-making, yet one nearly as old as cinema itself.
The Bergdorf Goodman-esque boutique offers the young boy all the sartorial tools necessary for expression and invention.
The story has been brewing my whole life, Magerko-Liquorice said.
It was very humbling renting out costumes to a lot of my peers I went to school with.
But I was happy and inspired to be helping people transform for my favorite holiday.
Earlier that day, Magerko-Liquorice spoke toVogueabout the personal influences that went into the story and film.
He described being bullied in high school mostly because of what I was wearing.
The traumatic incident stoked Magerko-Liquorices desire to escape to a place where creativity was celebrated instead of punished.
Inher reviewof the latest Wiederhoeft collection,VoguesLaia Garcia-Furtado defined the brands aesthetic as very ladylike and totally unexpected.
Jackson Wiederhoeft, Spencer Clark
Tanner Richie, Fletcher Kasell
