Designed as his AUT graduation collection, designer Phillip Von Fury ‘s WARM BROTHERS is a celebration of queer identity, born of his exploration of personal identity and investigation into The Institute for Sex Research, an establishment which operated in Berlin throughout the 1920s. The institute’s director, Marcus Hirschfeld, was a pioneer of LGBT rights and proposed the concept of human sexuality as a spectrum of sexual intermediaries. A community flourished around the Institute, and it became famous for holding lavish, hedonistic parties — an important opportunity for empirical research.
The collection re-imagines those parties using hospital garments as a starting point for silhouette and women’s eveningwear for Von Fury’s choices of fabric and finishings. Re-contextualised for 2017, the resulting garments challenge historical codes of what makes a garment masculine or feminine.
Photography by David K. Shields
Fashion by Chris Lorimer
Models: Joseph at FiveTwenty Liam at FiveTwenty
All clothing: Phillip von Fury
