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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Jared Richards

Dress for excess: designers embrace post-lockdown hedonism

Australian fashion designer Jordan Gogos sits in the partially constructed set of his Iordanes Spyridon Gogos runway presentation
Australian fashion designer Jordan Gogos brings a club kid mentality to his label, Iordanes Spyridon Gogos. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

Jordan Gogos is doing the most. The 27-year-old multi-hyphenate is bouncing across a cluttered room in Powerhouse Museum’s Ultimo workshop. From overflowing boxes of offcut denim to hat sculptures in the shape of birds (made from retrieved ocean fishnets), he shows off everything with equal enthusiasm.

“What do you do before you go to a club?” he says. “You smack together! You cut your T-shirt up before you go out, you make this thing, say, ‘That’s kind of cool.’ I guess what we’re doing: we’re smacking things together.”

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