Selected looks: MAXIVIVE Dry/Wet 2025
7562RJ is an interrogation—a confrontation. An exposure.
“Papa Oyeyemi—the survivor and the Designer—stretches the boundaries of pain and memory, threading together a conversation on violence, vulnerability, and the weight of truth. This collection is not just a group of garments or embroidered pieces of clothing using paintings from Ronald Ophuis as an anchor. It is a wound unstitched, a memory reassembled, a body redressed.
In the raw language of fabric and embroidery, 7562RJ translates adolescent sexual abuse into tangible form. The fashion exists in tandem with Ronald Ophuis’ life-sized paintings—charged depictions of trauma that hover between agony and acceptance.
One piece, depicting a figure curled inward, mirrors the intricate embroidery on a flowing hooded felted wool jumper—both reflecting themes of containment and self-protection. Another ensemble, featuring an expansive, hand-embroidered cape, draws directly from Ophuis’ painting of intertwined bodies grappling with power and fragility. The flowing lines of the cape in white and blue chambray cotton echo the painting’s composition, offering a wearable meditation on connection and rupture.
The clothes, sculpted from upcycled materials, intricate yet traditional embroidery techniques, and reflective like mirrors, dissect the notion of resilience: fragmented, reconstructed, endured. Each thread is a story unburied. Each seam, a confrontation. Each mirror, a reflection on self—a perpetrator-survivor story.
To speak of abuse, particularly as men, is to resist silence. It is to reclaim space, to stitch visibility into the fabric of existence. 7562RJ is a collection, but also a reckoning. It acknowledges the intimacy of pain and the complexity of survival.
It is not going to be an easy wear.
It is not meant to be.”
– Maxivive
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