Events
January 15
Venue
New York, NY
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.
FREE STATE
A dystopian paradise where nature has taken back the underground and nobody needs to pretend.
The rules are different here.
Society wasn’t working for us.
So we took to the underground. What we built at first was feral, chaotic and free. Paradise Dystopia began as an escape from the surface world and the versions of ourselves it asked us to perform.
What started as escape became culture.
FERAL & FREE
Breaking form. Dropping the mask. Discovering what happens when the walls come down.
ALT ELEGANCE
Freedom became more intentional. Darker, stranger, more self-authored.
FREE STATE
We learned that freedom works best when it is shared. Now we step into authentic, free versions of ourselves while showing up fully for others.
A dystopian paradise.
A temporary world of smoke, mirror, wet stone, glowing fractures, tangled evergreens and bodies free from the usual rules.
No prescribed identity. No correct way to belong.
Be loud.
Be quiet.
Be sensual.
Be ridiculous.
Be tender.
Be sincere.
Who are you when you stop managing how you’re perceived?
Expression, not compliance.
There is no uniform. There is only a world to pull from.
UNRESTRICTED BODY
The body as something inhabited, not managed.
Reveal, conceal, exaggerate or soften. The point is choice.
PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY
Dress as a version of yourself that does not need an explanation.
Wear the thing you’ve been saving for a world that didn’t exist yet.
Shadow & Chrome.
Dark and metallic, but overgrown. Industrial surfaces overtaken by mirror shards, vines, evergreen textures and volcanic glow.
Pacific Northwest cave rave energy.
Natural rock walls with large mosaic mirror pieces embedded into them. Evergreen branches, vines, twigs and plant life pushing through the structure. Certain areas glow like heat is meandering under the surface.
For one night, we practice another way of being together.
Lower the armour. Take the risk. Discover what happens. Carry some of it home.
Paradise is not somewhere perfect.
It is somewhere you do not have to pretend.
FREE STATE does not ask you to fit the world.
It asks what the world might look like if it made room for you.