“Internal monologue” jeans

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These are VERY delicate and have to specially cleaned and taken care of🖤
1/1 hand painted, patched, and printed jeans
Size 32 x 32 502 Levis
These jeans were a project for one of my assignments at Parsons, for my Fashion & the Narrative class. My interpretation of the theme was defined by the ideas of vulnerability and its relationship to self expression and visually-embodied personal poetry and prose. I decided to use a quote from Marilyn Manson during an interview with Bill O'Reilly in 2001 as my base inspiration. O'Reilly asks Manson,
“What's your message? What are you trying to get across in the lyrics to these songs?... Why the bizarre getup? I mean, why the eye, why the nail polish, why this satan stuff? You're a minister in the church of satan, right?” Manson responds “It's always about being yourself, and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different. I try to take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them. So you're not always taking things for granted. I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they wanna convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.”
Mansons statements resonate with me because I have always felt a similar way throughout my life. I think beauty is in the ability to be your own person, to express your message and your soul through dressing your body. Having the vulnerability and confidence to wear your heart and souls internal monologue and poetry on your sleeve is beauty. Beauty is the strength to be vulnerable. I have always placed a lot of importance on my aesthetics and the way I present myself to reflect my own narratives, motos, and social commentary that I’ve developed throughout my life. The process of internal self reflection and personal research to discover one's own narrative and internal monologue is beautiful in and of itself.