{"id":9021,"date":"2016-08-08T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/posturemag.com\/online\/?p=9021"},"modified":"2016-08-08T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T16:59:05","slug":"an-afternoon-with-hayden-and-shay-by-claire-fleury-and-alesia-exum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/posturemag.com\/online\/an-afternoon-with-hayden-and-shay-by-claire-fleury-and-alesia-exum\/","title":{"rendered":"An Afternoon with Hayden and Shay by Claire Fleury and Alesia Exum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claire Fleury is a NYC-based fashion designer whose genderfluid work is significantly inspired by what she describes as “performative collaborations,” most often with members of the queer and trans community. Fleury previously co-founded Strange Loop Gallery with her partner Alesia Exum which operated from December 2011 until May 2014 in the Lower East Side. Strange Loop became a creative hub\u00a0for the queer community as the gallery\u00a0showed work\u00a0from well known artists who push the boundaries of identity, feminism, and queerness such as Ryan Burke, Katrina Del Mar, Domonique Echeverria, Diego Montoya, and many more. Fleury and Exum decided to close the gallery to focus on their own work as\u00a0designer and professional photographer respectively.<\/p>\n

Fleury is self taught\u00a0and\u00a0draws from her\u00a0background in theatre and performance when conceptualizing\u00a0her work. Because of this, she often receives design\u00a0commissions from the performing arts community and active members of NYC queer nightlife.<\/p>\n

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Hayden Harker (left) and Shay Bares (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Exum’s latest photographic series of Fleury’s\u00a0new\u00a0choker collection shows a continued mutual\u00a0passion for\u00a0documenting Brooklyn queer trans drag nightlife and\u00a0photographing artists and performers whom,\u00a0according to Exum, “[are] people we feel would already wear Claire\u2019s clothes and share this vision and inspiration. When Claire showed me her recent collection of chokers I wanted to photograph these punk fetish glam chokers on couples. We thought of Shay and Hayden and I contacted them and asked if they would be interested. I suggested the makeup to be punk-glam and a little drag. We went to their apartment in Ridgewood [where]\u00a0the story unfolded as we all played dress up. [In the past] we\u2019ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Image Object, Severely Mame, Leo Gugu, Stella Rose Saint Clair, Macy Rodman, Grayson Squire, Trey LaTrash, Lady Simon, Addison, Rify Royalty and Boy Radio.”<\/p>\n

Inspired by her\u00a0life long love for the classic punk choker, Fleury\u00a0uses the choker as her canvas and loves the endless possibilities the small format offers. She comments, “They each carry their own miniature aesthetic, which could be anything from Carnival in Rio or Coney Island fun fair to soft bondage and future fetish wear.”<\/p>\n

Fleury’s\u00a0designs are available for purchase. Select chokers and other items are available at House of La Rue <\/a>(NYC\/Provincetown) and at pop-ups around town, for instance Casey Caldwell\u2019s Fashion Frenzy<\/a> every first Sunday at TnT<\/a> in Brooklyn. Other items featured here\u00a0are one-of-a-kind items of her ongoing Glam de Jour<\/em> collection.<\/p>\n

Find her and more work on her website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0Contact clairefleury@clairefleury.com\u00a0for custom order\u00a0inquiries\u00a0or subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to the newsletter for updated pop up locations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hayden Harker is a master hairstylist and makeup artist at Mudhoney Salon in Soho, as well as a freelance artist. Follow him on Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0Shay Bares is a designer and choreographer living in Brooklyn.\u00a0Follow them on Instagram.<\/a>\u00a0Hayden and Shay have been together for a little over a year.<\/p>\n

Photography and art direction by Alesia Exum<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hayden Harker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Shay Bares<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Hayden Harker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hayden Harker (left) and Shay Bares (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Claire
Hayden Harker (left) and Shay Bares (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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