Stories

STORY 13 — ICONOGRAPHY IN THE MAKING

From an art project shown in the Netherlands to an active commercial brand for men that live fully in their quietude, physicality, and elegance. 

STORY 12 — THE BIRTH OF THE UNDERWEAR

COUTUREBOY is the convergence of all these frequencies into a single layer of cloth.

STORY 11 — THE ALCHEMY OF LIGHT

Lighting, for me, is a form of erotic knowledge.

STORY 10 — THE OPPOSITIONAL GAZE

I learned to see the Black male body as sacred opacity: not spectacle, not display, but presence.

STORY 09 — THE GRAMMAR OF THE BODY

Composition became architecture. Skin became text. The body became a declarative sentence.

STORY 08 — THE FIRST MUSE

I learned that to fall in love with a muse temporarily is to open a space where the image is made from both our desires. 

STORY 07 — THE SHADOW AND THE QUIET

The quietude of stillness became my portal into understanding the frequencies of sensuality.

STORY 06 — PARISIAN CHIC ETHOS MOMENT

A self-imposed belief in personal rhythm and a subtle seduction that comes from restraint rather than spectacle. 

STORY 05 — BRAZILIAN EASE

Brazilian effortless ease taught me that sensuality is not a performance; it is an embodied aura.

STORY 04 — THE DYNASTY FREQUENCY

Television glamour raised me as much as my family. Dynasty shimmered through my childhood like an alternate universe where elegance was oxygen. The men there stood in tailored armor: sculpted shoul...