When the news broke on Instagram that Mowalola Ogunlesi would be appointed the creative director for Kanye West's GAP partnership, it seemed like a curious combination. Her brand is built on a hyper-sexual, high-wattage aesthetic that seems a million miles from the tees and chinos that GAP was built on. Yet ever since the launch of her label, her work has also been concerned with deconstructing, reworking, and upending conservative masculinity. And what could be more conservative than a GAP polo...
When the news broke on Instagram that Mowalola Ogunlesi would be appointed the creative director for Kanye West's GAP partnership, it seemed like a curious combination. Her brand is built on a hyper-sexual, high-wattage aesthetic that seems a million miles from the tees and chinos that GAP was built on. Yet ever since the launch of her label, her work has also been concerned with deconstructing, reworking, and upending conservative masculinity. And what could be more conservative than a GAP polo...
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