Clavicular is post-cancelled in the sense that they tried to cancel him for associating with Fuentes and Tate and he didn’t apologize for it yet it didn’t stop his ascent; and he is dissident in the sense that he doesn’t subscribe to progressive censorship rules, instead following personal values and free association. I proposed Clav to walk the NYFW show as part of our collab with Elena specifically for this reason, he’s the first new figure with cross-over appeal to push past an high profile attempted cancel, getting him into an institutional culture space like NYFW is a coup; besides his conceptual and aesthetic relevancy to our sustained engagement with dissident online subcultures and specifically looksmaxxing being the perfect intervention on fashion. Elena is one of the few seriously forward thinking designers in fashion and was fully into the suggestion immediately where almost anyone else would have balked at the idea, but I’m sure it was still a fight on her end to make happen, her and her team took real risks to cast him, and got hate from the still very conservatively leftist fashion world for it. You can argue Clav breaking into fashion modeling would have happened regardless but I’m doubtful, his casting, especially to close an opening show for NYFW, was a radical, controversial gesture for Elena to do and required her active advocacy to push through, likely even among some of her team and collaborators. The culture industries have been much more conservative in sticking to progressive censorship than general pop culture, you have to respect the risks people are taking to break it through. The rule is supposed to be if you talk to Fuentes, talk to Tate, etc. you’re cancelled, and now anyone that works with you will be cancelled too, like a virus isolating you from the culture industry; the rule getting broken breaks that spell. You can see in these caps, they’re also pissed we cast Dasha in the lookbook film for the collection, who was supposed to have had her career ended when they got her dropped from her agency, because she talked to Alex Jones or BAP or Fuentes or whatever else. She was supposed to be buried like Clav was supposed to be buried, but it’s not working anymore. Every example of a post-cancelled figure demonstrating immunity to cancel censorship undermines their ability to make others fear cancel by association. If they had the power they would blacklist Clav, Elena and Remilia permanently from fashion for this, just like they tried to do Dasha, and right now there are many running around trying everything they can to make it happen for Elena’s transgression. But there are thousands of more watching quietly trying to decide whether or not it’s yet safe to finally abandon the gestapo and join the resistance movement, knowing though they’ll get cancelled for it, too. It starts with those willing to take risks.