Is a development rising for utilizing paywalls as safety?
Final week Web page Six reported on a self-consciously scandalous musician who had joined grownup video web site OnlyFans — to not make porn however in order that she might specific herself freely, removed from the prudishness of mainstream media.
Now we’re informed {that a} controversial clothier is exploring the platform as a technique to escape “outrage” and the “tradition warfare” (and to, , possibly make some cash in a devastatingly tough retail panorama).
Elena Velez — who has dressed Taylor Swift, Solange Knowles, Charli XCX, Julia Fox and Grimes, amongst others — has been known as “problematic” by the Washington Submit, and final 12 months reportedly had a slew of friends cancel on the final minute after she revealed that her Vogue Week present could be an meditation on “Gone With The Wind.”
However the winner of the CFDA Award for Rising Designer of the 12 months tells Web page Six that OnlyFans is one in every of a lot of methods she’s preventing in opposition to the morality vogue.
“On prime of the precarity of a profession within the inventive business, we’re additionally in the midst of a tradition warfare,” Velez informed us, “Each public proclamation or inventive assertion that lies outdoors of a tightly sanctioned social window comes with the potential of outrage {and professional} ostracizing. It has by no means been extra vital as an artist who values the integrity of inventive expression to diversify their technique of earnings.”
She added that “content material of my uncommon life-style or… sharing the distinctive struggles I face as knowledgeable artist” might make for compelling footage that “individuals see a variety of worth in.”
“OnlyFans is a extremely cheeky and disruptive technique to democratize entry to capital and goal totally different audiences,” she mentioned.
To mark her entry to the subscription streaming world, Velez has additionally produced tshirts and hoodies printed with the OnlyFans emblem and a corset design. The tshirt, out there on the OnlyFans web site, is $275, and the hoodie is $350.
Her work will seem on OnlyFans “SFW” (or G-rated) platform OFTV.
