Back in September, Firetrap sponsored London-based Lebanese guy Ziad Ghanem to put on his The Immortalist show – a mixture of his made-to-order stuff, his pretty extreme Maiden Britain line and some Firetrap denim reworked into 3D sculptural forms. Firetrap’s website says the firm is “subversive, unconventional and creative” – which is probably why they got together with Ziad. His clothes are for the sort of people who love fashion for the sheer sake of it, not to look cool or rich or piss off their gran or the government or whatever, but purely because they like having as extreme an aesthetic as possible. We’re talking weird shapes, being as 3D as possible, in your face prints (preferably lots of them at once), slogans, loads of colour and collections called Masturbazar. Recently I got that fashion isn’t all political, so rather than force Ziad to struggle to answer some boring questions, I figured if I got him to answer in pictures, that would be a more fashion/visual thing to do.
