Desmina de Vil SLAYS at New York Fashion Week

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Happy Friday the 13th!

As Spooky Season lays heavily on our chests, so does the inundation of news about Fall Fashion Weeks around the world, from Seoul to New York to Paris. And like Halloween, we witness the macabre costume wickedness of fashion. It's a cut-throat world where one display of absurdity tops another, packaged in beauty filter and botox. Extra points if you can make a ghoul look extra glamorous. I swear I’m seeing almost as many articles about Kendall Jenner wearing a dress made of faux fingernails at the Schiaparelli show in Paris as breaking news on Ghost couples on this season of Love is Blind. Kendall’s snoopy walk or Stacy’s Trump-inspired blush, color me absolutely screaming for my life.

But there is one designer, model, Halloween worshiper, and potential future reality-dating-show contestant that shines in glitter and gore above the rest.

Desmina de Vil.

Desmina de Vil in Old Friends

Who is this mysterious and incredibly talented new girl on the block? She apparated at the Church of St. Ignacious of Loyola, just in time to serve Red Wedding at the RISE NYFW show on September 8th. A little early for the season of the dead, or perhaps right on time, Desmina and her gorgeous Desminions hypnotized the audience with stealthy walks, cutting stares, and bloody clothes.

Ms. de Vil, my most heartfelt congratulations on debuting your fashion line at New York Fashion Week, and for making the beautiful life and death long commitment to your one true love, yourself.

The fashion world has been turned upside down since Desmina de Vil bore into the fashion scene. Industry experts and enthusiasts, as well as regular untalented peasants, have been swept off their feet by her incredible display of artistry, absurdity, and prowess. A little birdie told me that Desmina’s phone and email will not stop ringing from all of the press calls and job opportunities in the land of the living and the dead.

Dawn-Jade Clover in Xoxo Puck

Desmina, I know you’ve heard this a million times, but you absolutely SLAYED the runway. I have never seen anything quite so brilliant and original. There is no doubt in my mind that you are on your path to becoming the most renowned and famous fashion designer in history. The hundreds of fashion shows, lines, and designers at New York Fashion Week and Fashion Weeks around the known Universe cannot compare to your genius star power. I cannot fathom there will ever be another designer who makes my eyes bleed like you.

Wow. Just wow. No one has ever haphazardly painted random and mildly unique old clothes in such a precise manner. No one has ever walked the runway stages of New York Fashion week in such morbid and very believable clown makeup. No one has ever made fashion out of complete trash.

Dela Acolatse in 2 Ghosts

I am stunned and completely enamored. I swear Ms. de Vil must’ve cast an obsessive love spell on me because I cannot get her out of my mind. I have never witnessed a witch so powerful and stunning.

Please accept me into your cult!

Desmina accomplished an insurmountable feat. The spectacle of the show was pure play. Each outfit portrayed a character, a spirit, brought to life by the living. The models doubled as artists and actors as they portrayed a season in the rotating cycle of existence.

Birth. Life. Death. Marriage.

What stories was Desmina brewing between the lines?

Lola Grace Livingstone in I.Am a Clown

Wings made of plastic and flowers

Love in the lines of poetry

Horns and Crowns on Clowns

Blood splattered on a

White Wedding Dress

Fairies in Books

And Magic

Read Words on

Paper

Breaking!

News

Desmina is on Fire

Message received. Thanks for inviting me into the wedding.

[Insert more jargon about fashion, the fashion industry, celebrity gossip, and how Desmina compares to big name designers. Blah blah blah Valentino, blah blah blah, isn’t Balenciaga canceled? Blah blah blah, ugly trend but let’s make it fashionable. Blah blah blah did someone spot Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce? Blah blah blah ohmigod that after party was so messy. Blah blah blah I love Desmina de VIl so much I am willing to sacrifice my life on the altar for her please marry me Desmina de Vil.]

Krisani Thar in Queen of Amy Whinehearts

Ahem. Well in all honesty, I don't know a damn thing about it all. Like you, I'm an Internet Observer of all the juicy drop dead gorgeous chaos, and I’m just crazy enough to insert myself into the conversation. I'm a performer on the grand stage of the Meme. I talk a lot about shit I know nothing about.

Oh, and I'm a damn good storyteller.

So let’s spill some tea. I’m sorry, I meant blood.

Desmina de Vil is someone you want to be paying attention to.

Tuly, Desmina, I applaud you. Thank you for the excellent show. I only know you and the archetypes you portray.

Does anybody want to ride the chariot to the UnderWorld?

Xoxo Desmina de Vil

Photos: [1] by Emeriss Frederico [2-5] by Abby Thompson

If you would like to support the performance art piece that is the fantastical world of Desmina de Vil, please check out this GoFundMe.