(Photo: Jake Chessum)

Where are you from?
I’m a southern boy at heart—I’m from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Do you bring this look down South?
The corsets are just for night and for New York, but I don’t feel like you should ever change who you are. Even if I walk down the street and get a lot of “What the fuck is that?”—I just smile, I keep on walking, and keep on doing it, because no one’s ever going to get it if I don’t.

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