Is a pattern rising for utilizing paywalls as safety?
Final week Web page Six reported on a self-consciously scandalous musician who had joined grownup video website OnlyFans — to not make porn however in order that she may specific herself freely, removed from the prudishness of mainstream media.
Now we’re instructed {that a} controversial designer is exploring the platform as a approach to escape “outrage” and the “tradition warfare” (and to, you recognize, possibly make some cash in a devastatingly tough retail panorama).
Elena Velez — who has dressed Taylor Swift, Solange Knowles, Charli XCX, Julia Fox and Grimes, amongst others — has been referred to as “problematic” by the Washington Submit, and final 12 months reportedly had a slew of friends cancel on the final minute after she revealed that her Vogue Week present could be an meditation on “Gone With The Wind.”
However the winner of the CFDA Award for Rising Designer of the Yr tells Web page Six that OnlyFans is one among numerous methods she’s combating in opposition to the morality vogue.
“On prime of the precarity of a profession within the artistic trade, we’re additionally in the course of a tradition warfare,” Velez instructed us, “Each public proclamation or artistic assertion that lies exterior of a tightly sanctioned social window comes with the potential of outrage {and professional} ostracizing. It has by no means been extra necessary as an artist who values the integrity of artistic expression to diversify their technique of earnings.”
She added that “content material of my uncommon way of life or… sharing the distinctive struggles I face as knowledgeable artist” could make for compelling footage that “folks see lots of worth in.”
“OnlyFans is a extremely cheeky and disruptive approach to democratize entry to capital and goal totally different audiences,” she mentioned.
To mark her entry to the subscription streaming world, Velez has additionally produced tshirts and hoodies printed with the OnlyFans emblem and a corset design. The tshirt, obtainable on the OnlyFans website, is $275, and the hoodie is $350.
Her work will seem on OnlyFans “SFW” (or G-rated) platform OFTV.
