A Very Luxurious Hangover (Photoshoot)

Hangover... A VERY LUXURIOUS

PHOTOGRAPHED BY JESS YOUNG

Models- Robin Kwon and Pabasha Perera Stylists- Nicky Harrington and Nevia Schultheiss

Jess Young It’s too easy to call out all that is wrong with global luxury. For me, global luxury is about escapism. Be that escaping to a place of camp, decadence, or utopianism; to indulge in global luxury is to indulge in the privilege to dream. Reflecting on this editions theme, ‘Unmasking Global Luxury’,cI found myself inevitably having to confront global luxury’s more immoral side. It was in this tension between escapism and immorality, that ‘a very luxurious hangover’ was conceived. Unsurprisingly, this tension reminded me of my own time living in Venice and the hedonistic afterparties of masked Carnivale balls. Rooms saturated with masked revellers, hiding their own debauchery in the shadows of the early morning. l realised that these afterparties are the epitome of global luxury, simultaneously an escape, an aesthetic, and an impurity. Of course, trying to recreate a Venetian afterparty in a King’s Cross flat is no easy feat but I think the artificiality of the scenario we created only adds to the camp escapism that comes, for me, with Global Luxury.