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PISSY PUSSY.

The first thing that one notices about Pissy Pussy is…EVERYTHING. The New York-based designer is the antithesis of understatement, towering high above crowds in sky-scraping shoes, headpieces and alien couture. Pissy was birthed in the NYC club scene by Robert Reed, the brains behind the brand, following in the footsteps of the long lineage of queer royalty to emerge from the city’s electric nightlife.

Reed is a self-identified ‘outlaw in the fashion scene’, refusing to play by any style rulebook and always defying easy categorisation. For one, Pissy Pussy never shows their face due to Reed’s hatred of make-up, and it is this choice to be covered that makes the creation so uncanny. The absence of such a key human feature helps to take Pussy from human experiment to living art piece; a walking, talking, exhibit.

Pissy Pussy’s 2019 has been a busy one, having released their first collection for Spring 2019 at NYFW and

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