KRATER is a radical collision of fashion design, visual art, and underground techno. Subverting the standard Manhattan runway show, the incubator’s first event brings New York Fashion Week to Bushwick’s House of Yes with an array of emerging designers and some of the city’s top selectors. Designers Femlord, Official Rebrand & Raspaditos, Erik Bergrin, and Giselle will debut new collections and collaborations through a series of disruptive performances, while Nowadays residents Jadalareign and Donis and The Bunker’s Mike Servito and Bryan Kasenic play sets throughout the night. There will also be a pop up market where you can purchase pieces directly from the designers.
Join us Monday, February 13, 8p to midnight for the main event and midnight-2a for the afterparty.
FURTHER DETAILS:
KRATER is an artistic incubator where imagination transcends itself. It is a movement and community space that aims to celebrate the freedom and empowerment of self-expression by unifying design, music, and art. This event will provide a platform for emerging designers pushing the boundaries of fashion as an artistic practice and redefining its meaning.
This event is made possible by the Creatives Rebuild New York Guaranteed Income for Artists program, making this celebration for artists by artists a reality.
The mainstream fashion industry is built upon the exploitation of labor and natural resources. This event is all about having the power to take action while reimagining a just and equitable fashion system for the people and the planet. Now is the time to rise up together for a regenerative, restorative, and revolutionary new fashion system.
This is a celebration of people that are creating art and fashion in support of a more sustainable and transparent fashion industry and this is us reclaiming New York Fashion Week, by having an ANTI-FASHION event.
The designers will debut new collections and collaborations through a series of disruptive performances challenging the standard runway show.
This event will be groundbreaking for our scene, by bringing NYFW to Bushwick. This is an event for artists by artists, celebrating the importance of sustainable design and giving a platform to emerging, independent designers in our scene to show their work and start a conversation.
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FEMLORD aka BRIELLE JENKINS
Femlord is an airbrush artist from Florida now living and working in Queens, NYC. Brielle likes ponies, wizards, and souvenir shops and dislikes spaghetti. She hopes her airbrush art makes people feel magical when they wear it.
GISELLE aka GISELLE MANZANO RAMÍREZ
Giselle Manzano Ramírez is a Colombian designer and artist based in Brooklyn.She likes to think of her work as crossing the boundaries of art by using fashion as an artistic medium of self-expression. She works on the surface of materials with chemicals and experiments with unconventional printmaking and surface embellishments. Giselle is part of a generation of socially and environmentally conscious designers that are pushing things forward. She has been part of Brooklyn Fashion Week, ReFashion Week, and Bartschland and has collaborated with the NYC Department of Sanitation and Donate NYC. She has given conferences and workshops at Pratt Institute, among others. She also collaborates with emerging artists and DJs in the underground music scene as a designer and stylist for DJs performing at events such as Dekmantel, Boiler Room, and The Bunker and clubs such as Berghain, Basement, and Bossa Nova Civic Club as part of her mission to empower people through fashion. She recently joined the roster of Domestika, the fastest-growing creative community where the best creative experts share their knowledge and skills through professionally produced online courses. Giselle is the founder of Krater.
OFFICIAL REBRAND aka MI LEGGETT
MI Leggett is a New York based non-binary artist. A former food justice advocate with a background in sustainable agriculture, video art and painting, they now transform unwanted materials into unique clothing and sculptures. Challenging the boundaries between art and fashion, they have shown work at New York and Berlin Fashion Week, international galleries and New Art Dealers Alliance. Their work and words have appeared in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Vogue Italia, Paper, Bloomberg, i-D, Milk, Office, and other outlets.
Official Rebrand revives discarded clothing, breathing new life into what was once unwanted. Through painting and other alterations, artist MI Leggett's “rebranding” process proposes an anti-waste alternative to today's industrial and social norms. Official Rebrand’’s transformative process celebrates the fluidity of identity, dissociating garments from gendered categories, reintroducing them without arbitrary social constraints.
RASPADITOS aka VALENTINA BACHE RODRIGUEZ
Valentina Baché Rodríguez (they/them) was born and raised in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. At 15, they skipped high school, moved to Massachusetts to attend Bard College at Simon's Rock, and obtained an Associates Degree in Biology & Dance. Yearning for more dance, they moved to NYC to attend Hunter College for a BA in Dance, graduating in 2020. They have performed with Young Boy Dancing Group as well as many grassroots organizations throughout the city, at venues ranging from the historic Judson Church and Kaye Playhouse, to the floors of underground raves. They create hand-woven art under the moniker "Raspaditos," only using second-hand or deadstock fabric and scissors to create genderless, sexy, and versatile clothing that's ideal for dance. They believe in the power of pleasure and joy through resilient, stubborn, and unbound honesty.
SPIRIT BODY CLOTHING aka ERIK BERGRIN
Erik Bergrin is an artist and designer based in NYC. The artist draws on his background in costume design, as well as a study in meditation to make the work. Spirit Body is a conceptual clothing line based on the practices of bringing up psychological demons and wearing a representation of it as a way to transform these negative states of mind into your own creative freedom. Each garment has a tag with a QR code that takes you to a video explaining the spiritual philosophy behind each piece. Every item is the embodiment of one of these teachings. His fiber sculpture work has been featured in institutions such as Marlborough Contemporary NY, The Morris Museum NJ, The State Historical Museum Moscow, Bakrushian Museum Moscow, Bergen Kunsthall Norway, The Society of Arts and Crafts Boston, David Fierman Gallery NY, Here Arts Center NY, and more. He has designed costumes for movies such as, “A Wounded fawn,” currently streaming on Shudder, and shows such as John Cameron Mitchell’s,”Origin of Love tour and Goodbar at the Public theater. Erik’s creations have been in publications such as Dazed and Confused, Zink, NyTimes, King Kong, Schon, ODDA, Dust, L'Officiel, and more.
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BRYAN KASENIC
For the past 20 years, The Bunker New York has led the way for American techno by bringing together hundreds of artists from all over the world. More than a mere techno party, The Bunker unites diverse sounds from across the electronic music spectrum, connecting the dots between house, techno, experimental sounds, and much more. The Bunker New York began as a party, grew up into a record label, and has become a collaborative community, fostered by founder and curator Bryan Kasenic since its launch in 2003.
DONIS
Donis pronounced (DAH-NIS) is a Dominican American DJ born and raised in Bushwick, Brooklyn NY. Their DJ sets play with the rhythmic relationships between the dance music of New York, Chicago/Detroit and Jersey/Baltimore as well as music from all over the African diaspora. Core member of Brooklyn radio station/collective Half Moon.
JADALAREIGN
Jadalareign grew up as Jada Lorraine an hour north of New York City, where she was first introduced to the vibrant world of music in a household resounding with jazz, soul, funk, hip-hop, and Brazilian music. As a selector and an events programmer, Jada’s involvement in New York’s scene is part of a broader mission to tell the stories of the origins of dance music, a genre that emerged from Black, Latinx, and queer communities across the Midwest, Northeast, and UK. She also maintains a FUBU (For us, by us) approach to her work. In 2019, her first in-person DJ and production workshop series, Community Skillshare, debuted at Powrplnt. At the height of the pandemic, she also collaborated with FIVEBOI and Sam Law to launch an online music production workshop series catered toward marginalized artists, In Session. In 2022, the program moved to Nowadays and the productive year also saw Jada join the Nowadays team as the club’s booker for Friday night programming. Wearing her DJ hat, she also became one of the venue’s most exciting residents. Jada’s talent expands further into production, with her past works being featured on respected New York labels Haus Of Altr and Sorry Records. In 2023, the musician is set to release her debut EP, securing her position as a multi-talented artist that is constantly sharpening and developing her practice.
MIKE SERVITO
Some DJs burst upon the scene like a supernova, fading just as quickly. Others take years, even decades, to make their way—but those are the ones who make the most impact, thanks to a lifetime of accumulated musical wisdom. Mike Servito is a prime example of the latter. His career is one that’s defined by a slow and steady rise to upper ranks of the deejaying realm—and along the way, he’s perfected a jacking style that equal parts house, acid and techno, a sound that pays homage to the past while being very much of-the-moment. After moving from Detroit to NYC, he soon fell in with the city’s premier techno party, The Bunker, becoming one of its mainstay residents. Around the same time, he was beginning to make his presence known on a global scale, packing dance floors with gigs around the States and around the world.
21+ | No Re-Entry
* * * SAFER SPACES POLICY * * *
House of Yes is a space for everyone to feel welcome. We have a zero tolerance policy for harassment, unwanted touch, and discrimination. Always ASK before touching anyone at our events. If someone is making you uncomfortable, speak to a security guard or ask for a manager. We will believe you, and we will help. All restrooms in our venue are gender neutral. The entrance to the venue is ADA accessible. Strobe lights are used during performances and parties.
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