{"id":68870,"date":"2018-08-01T14:23:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=68870"},"modified":"2018-08-01T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:33:02","slug":"patrick-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/patrick-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The NSFW designs turning fellatio into fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion"],"acf":{"main_category":81,"legacy":false,"hero_title":"The NSFW designs turning fellatio into fashion","subtitle":"Patrick Church is the British-born, NY-based designer making waves with his frequently phallic garments \u2014 and we can't get enough.","hero":{"video":false,"image":false,"header_color":"black","overlay_color":"","overlay_text_color":"black"},"teasers":{"video":false,"image":false,"width":"4","proportion":"natural"},"related_articles":[68843,68829,68575],"next_article":[68843],"content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":"Courtesy of Patrick Church"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWow, your jacket is covered in dicks, man!\u201d Ezra Miller said to me one New York Fashion week, referring to my leather trench coat covered in hand-drawn nude men. A surreal moment for me, but pretty much the norm for Patrick Church, the designer who made it and whose phallic-focused designs have made him one of NYC\u2019s most promising new creatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Born and raised in the UK, the queer designer says that he has always had a strong relationship with art, an interest that was honed with the help of an \u201camazing art teacher\u201d who allowed him to exercise and develop his own unique style. By the time he reached university, he\u2019d already established a distinctive painting style, and shunned further education to further nurture his own personal approach. Using bold and bright colours, his early work featured a selection of complex characters who represented Church\u2019s adolescent emotions, his relationship with love and depicted his sexual experiences \u2014 both literal and fantasy.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":"Courtesy of Patrick Church"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p>It was never the plan to turn his artistry into a fashion brand, but Church now has an eponymous label under which he creates regular collections and custom pieces. \u201cI realised that there was nothing that I liked to wear,\u201d he tells me over a crackly transatlantic call. \u201cI never saw anything that I thought was fun or wanted to buy, so I just started to experiment.\u201d Citing Vivienne Westwood\u2019s provocative \u201970s designs as a major source of inspiration, Church now uses jackets, suits, tees and trousers as a canvas for his autobiographical paintings, which depict heartbroken protagonists alongside poetic musings, depictions of chiselled nude men and more often than not, intimate images of fellatio. Although he says it\u2019s unintentional, his powerful and provocative designs break boundaries around sexuality, and force society\u2019s prudish eye to look upon something often considered taboo \u2014 nudity, sex and raw emotion. \u201cWhen I\u2019m making work about sex, I\u2019m not actually having sex; it\u2019s more the idea of it and the longing of it! I remember I had a year or two where I didn\u2019t have sex and I would romanticise about it for my art work,\u201d he explains of his more controversial pieces.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bb-SwX8F_m6\/","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recognising his creative potential, boutique retailer Opening Ceremony have thrown their support behind Church and have bought his last two collections. They regularly offer him a presentation space during New York Fashion Week. His show sees him invite spectators to watch as he performs a live painting on various garment pieces \u2014 offering a unique insight into his creative process from start to finish. Having a platform to showcase his work has helped him to catch the attention of some well-known names, and he\u2019s now found fans in Kendall Jenner, Teyana Taylor and SZA, to name a few.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery":false,"settings":{"height":"75","images_to_show":"1","caption":"Courtesy of Patrick Church"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, this burgeoning recognition has meant that meeting demand is becoming increasingly challenging for Church, which is why his next collection will go into production, rather than being solely hand-painted.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere are certain limitations with painting on garments,\u201d the designer explains. \u201cThere\u2019s only so much you can do, and I would like to expand a little bit. This way, I\u2019m able to experiment and push myself a lot more.\u201d It also means that he will be able distribute his creations worldwide, rather than everything being outsourced from his studio in Brooklyn, New York, so you can expect to see a lot more Patrick Church designs on the street sometime soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aside from working on the production of his next collection, Church is also pulling together his first exhibition. Titled\u00a0<em>Because of You<\/em>, the show has given the artist the opportunity to try something more soft and romantic. \u201cI\u2019m trying to look at love in a different light, as something that isn\u2019t dark and won\u2019t always let you down,\u201d he says. For\u00a0<em>Because of You<\/em>, the designer will present a live painting show alongside a series of his own personal artworks. His aim is to trace his progression as an artist and designer, moving from a place of darkness, to one of light and love \u2014 expect it to to be the hottest ticket in town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cBecause of You\u201d opens September 3 at Toth Gallery, New York.<\/i><\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The NSFW designs turning fellatio into fashion The NSFW designs turning fellatio into fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/patrick-church\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The NSFW designs turning fellatio into fashion The NSFW designs turning fellatio into fashion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/patrick-church\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-08-01T14:23:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-08-01T14:33:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ryan Cahill\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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