KRATER is a radical collision of fashion design, performance art, and electronic music. Subverting the standard Manhattan runway show, the incubator’s second 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 and artists Giselle x Earthworks, Maŕa x Maŕa Peralta Studio, Nyhne x GLU, The Web Has No Weaver, and Wear And Tear will debut new collections and experimental collaborations through a series of disruptive performances. San Francisco’s Mozhgan, SLINK’s rrao, and The Bunker’s Bryan Kasenic play DJ sets throughout the night and at the afterparty. There will also be a pop up market where you can purchase pieces directly from the designers.
⫸ Join us Friday September 8, 7p to 10pm for the main event.
The DJs will be playing an afterparty for ticket holders in HOY’s Onyx room after the main event from 10pm to 4am.
⫸ FURTHER INFO:
KRATER, pronounced “ KRAH-TER” is a groundbreaking fusion of fashion design, performance art, and underground techno that challenges the norms of the mainstream runway scene. We are excited to bring New York Fashion Week to Bushwick's House of Yes, where a dynamic mix of emerging designers and top selectors from the city will converge.
At our events, expect an evening filled with disruptive performances as designers unveil their latest collections and collaborations. Throughout the night, the underground electronic music scene's finest DJs will set the mood with their incredible sets. Additionally, we will host a pop-up market, offering you the opportunity to purchase unique pieces directly from the designers.
KRATER is more than an artistic incubator; it is a movement and community space that celebrates the freedom and empowerment of self-expression through the unification of design, music, and art. Our event serves as a platform for emerging designers who are pushing the boundaries of fashion as an artistic practice and redefining its meaning.
We are grateful to the Creatives Rebuild New York Guaranteed Income for Artists program for making this celebration by artists for artists a reality. This event stands in opposition to the mainstream fashion industry's exploitative practices and instead envisions a just and equitable fashion system that respects labor and the environment. Together, we can rise up and create a regenerative, restorative, and revolutionary new fashion paradigm.
Join us in reclaiming New York Fashion Week with an ANTI-FASHION event that celebrates those who create art and fashion in support of a sustainable and transparent industry. This groundbreaking event in Bushwick will challenge the traditional runway show format, showcasing new collections and collaborations through disruptive performances. It is an opportunity for emerging, independent designers to share their work and ignite conversations about the importance of sustainable design.
We invite you to be a part of this transformative experience as we redefine the fashion landscape. Together, we can make a lasting impact and pave the way for a more inclusive and conscious future in the industry.
⫸ DESIGNER/ARTIST BIOS:
EARTHWORKS
Earthworks is collaboratively imagined by multidisciplinary artists Cristina Bartley Dominguez and Catherine Chen who explore rites, ritual spaces, and ancestral knowledge. Through their incorporated practice of image-making, movement, sound, text, and installation, they create performance-based works that address the natures of catastrophe and mythology, belonging and inheritance. By bridging their Mexican and Taiwanese ancestries, they integrate folklore, somatic ritual, and pre-colonial modes of storytelling to unearth the relationship between memory, movement, and land, imagining survival strategies that will aid all forms of life in our intimate, yet catastrophic worlds.
GISELLE
Giselle Manzano Ramírez, is a Colombian designer and multidisciplinary artist. Her mission revolves around empowering individuals through the medium of fashion, utilizing garments as a canvas to convey profound meaning and evoke emotions. Going beyond traditional boundaries, Giselle merges art with fashion, exploring unconventional printmaking techniques and surface embellishments to create unique and captivating works.
Her artistic journey has led her to showcase her creations at prestigious events such as Brooklyn Fashion Week, ReFashion Week, Bartschland, and KRATER. Collaborating with emerging artists and DJs within the underground music scene, Giselle serves as both a designer and stylist, curating unforgettable looks for DJs performing at renowned venues like Dekmantel, Boiler Room, and The Bunker. She brings her vision to life in legendary clubs such as Berghain, Basement, and Bossa Nova Civic Club, leaving an indelible mark on the fashion landscape and empowering individuals through her creative expression.
Giselle's expertise has recently been recognized as she joined the esteemed roster of Domestika, the rapidly growing creative community. This platform allows the most talented creative experts to share their knowledge and skills through meticulously crafted online courses.
Giselle is the founder of Krater.
MAŔA x MAŔA PERALTA STUDIO
Maŕa Peralta Studio, or MPS, was founded by Spanish musician and designer Maŕa Peralta. The studio specializes in creating jewelry that embodies resistance, embracing the concepts of ready-made, functionality, uniformity, and attachment. Maŕa combines design and assembly work to bring her unique vision to life. All jewelry is meticulously crafted from polished stainless steel, reconstructed and made in New York, with a unisex design that caters to all individuals.
In addition to her jewelry work, Maŕa is also the founder of Cultivated Sound and a prominent figure in New York's mysterious dance music underground scene. Her captivating sound transports listeners to distant universes, blending deep and intricate atmospheres with energetic cosmic rhythms that retain a rawness on the dance floor.
In her collection 003 "DESTRUCTION," Maŕa takes inspiration from a dystopian world and transforms it into a romantic utopia. Drawing parallels to her music composing techniques, Maŕa recontextualizes materials and compositions from previous collections, resulting in an evolution for Maŕa Peralta Studio. Collection 003 introduces a youthful and romantic aesthetic while embracing the concept of destruction within order.
NYHNE x GLU
Nan(c(y)) Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and designer, whose work navigates across sculpture, sound and architecture. Their projects consider both time and “waste” as physical materials that transmute into portals to hidden stories. Their sonic moniker, Nyhne, explores feedback, drone, found sounds, ritual, and spoken word to form textural landscapes for catharsis.
Nancy’s wearables project, GLU investigates gender fluidity, animism, and utility. The accessories series repurposes “scrap” materials from their previous installations and architectural projects. Over the past few years, it has become an understated iconic accessory of expression in rave spaces, such as Honcho Campout, Sustain Release, and Organik Festival in Taiwan, with many of the industry’s favorite artists, promoters, and dancers being the first to strut. All items are custom made to order in close collaboration. Color themes are developed in deep reverie on the individual’s aura and energy field.
They have shown work at Reykjavik Art Museum (Iceland), A Guide to the Field (Mountaindale, NY), Arario Gallery (New York, NY), Van Alen Institute (New York, NY), and MIT Keller Gallery (Cambridge, MA). They hold degrees from Parsons School of Design (BFA), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.Arch), where they received The MIT Energy Initiative Grant, CAMIT Art Grant, and Louis C. Rosenberg Thesis Fellowship.
THE WEB HAS NO WEAVER
Web, aka Rebecca Richards, is a sustainable fashion designer and multidisciplinary visual artist based between NYC, LA, & Louisville, Kentucky. Through their brand, The Web Has No Weaver, Web transforms discarded and thrifted items into upcycled couture, finding inspiration in the realm of avant-garde, psychedelic fantasy. Their work aims to create visually captivating and emotional experiences that challenge societal norms by defying the current homogeneous aesthetic of mass-produced fast fashion. By turning "trash" into glamorous treasures, Web disrupts capitalist culture and envisions a future that is connected, loving, and sacred.
Web’s dedication to sustainability and freedom of expression is rooted in their background as co-founder of biodegradable glitter brand BioGlitz, with features in Vogue, Paper, Vice, & more.
Their DIY sensibilities are born of their formative experience living at Brooklyn punk house Bohemian Grove, where they began hosting femme/queer art parties that extended to other DIY venues such as The Glove, Secret Project Robot, & Flowers for All Occasions– while simultaneously studying film, sustainable fashion, & queer critical theory at NYU. They have directed, written & costumed music videos and fashion films, created giant fabric installations, costumed plays and operas, and are currently working on their second collection to be shown this September at Krater, as well as a solo sculpture show in Louisville this October.
WEAR AND TEAR
Launched in 2022 by JT McPartlin, Wear and Tear disrupts the fashion system's hyper-consumerism by exclusively upcycling second-hand garments. Through the art of deconstruction, old clothing is given new life and a fresh burst of energy. Why discard when something dynamic and unique can be created?
With every use, Wear and Tear garments evolve and transform. Each wear and wash adds character, creating a tangible connection to the stories they carry. As holes form and grow, they become reminders of the memories embedded within. The more the garments are used, the more love and meaning they accumulate.
Since its launch, Wear and Tear has become a popular trend in the vibrant New York nightlife scene. Each cut, rip, and tear adds to the ongoing evolution of these distinctive designs.
⫸ DJ BIOS
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 and non-profit organization, fostered by founder and curator Bryan Kasenic since its launch in 2003. Bryan is the co-founder and music director of Krater.
MOZHGAN
An Iranian born and California based DJ, Mozhgan has been honing her dark arts on the decks for quite some time. In 2011, she started the We Are Monsters party to develop her passion for contemporary, dark, and mysterious dance floor sounds. Her sound has garnered many fans across the globe and she’s become a regular on lineups from Dekmantel to Panorama Bar and well beyond!
Mozhgan is a sonic alchemist who’s musical languages traverse between mysterious planes and wondrous vortexes. Her singular technique focuses on uncanny juxtapositions of sound that seamlessly unify and project spiritual light, creating luminous pronunciations that voyage deep into the shadowy spaces of the subconscious. As an acolyte of the acidic temple, and founder of the We are Monsters gatherings, Mozhgan fearlessly confronts the constricting limits of the status quo while simultaneously rejecting them with arcane spells that defy time and space. By projecting hypnotic sound waves that rupture the mundane, her cosmic utterances permit extraterrestrial passages that venture beyond the tranquil pathways of familiarity.
RRAO
With only a handful of tracks released, scattered over a variety of labels and compilations, rrao has been turning heads with their ethereal take on both ambient and rhythmic electronics that induce trance-like meditative states. rrao is a member of the SLINK collective, a New York based party series and record label born from the desire to encourage DJs to explore the outermost boundaries of dance music and rhythms. SLINK serves as home for outsider and too-slippery-to-be-defined dance music. They hope to create dance floors that twist the mind as much as the body. In addition to their own events, rrao has performed at many festivals and parties including Sustain Release, Dripping, Unsound, Return to the Source, The Bunker, and Honcho.
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