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Duckwrthsmells like Le Labo’s Santal 33.
Mancy Gant
(It was a gift, I swear.)
I should probably back up a bit.
After about a year and a half sitting still, Duckwrth craved the momentum and growth that circles represent.
Lea Winkler
“All I want to do is move,” he remarks.
He’s in New York City for two nights of shows at Bowery Ballroom.
Next stops: Boston, Delaware, and Washington.
Lea Winkler
Then, Duckwrth will head toParis Fashion Week.
Through the stagnancy, Duckwrth’s cylindrical obsession powered his creations.
(He moonlights as a designer in all senses of the word, by the way.)
“I don’t know what the original idea was.
“That’s pretty much it.”
What shape did he want to see?
Circles, of course.
Wanting to take this exploration of makeup further, Duckwrth remembered safer ways to draw on your face exist.
“I’m always trying to smash shit together,” Duckwrth declares.
Is Duckwrth ever worried about being perceived as “too feminine”?
He takes a couple of beats to go through what he imagines to be feminine.
A jacket cinched to fit the curves of a woman’s body that’s about it.
“I’m at a place now where every year, less fucks are given.”
Part of me is envious that Duckwrth was able to dive into makeup in such a playfully expressive way.
When I tell him this in not so many words, Duckwrth winces.
“I know doing certain types of makeup can definitely make a person feel better, for sure.
Oh, that hurts,” he says.
“Makeup is art.
It is creation, the extension of self.
In this realm, it’s very mundane.
In this ones-and-zeros reality that we live in, that’s where ideas form.
That’s what I live for, in essence.”
“Makeup is the extension of ourselves,” he continues.
“It’s the magic we seek, and it shows us other realms.
It shows belief beyond what we see.”
It brings an alternate reality where I’m living joyfully to this dimension.
Duckwrth finally found the words for me.
Who would’ve thought?
Other than circles, I soon realize color is the thread throughout Duckwrth’s 33 years in this realm.
It’s the key to his authenticity.
Evidence of this phase of his life was captured byTeen Peoplewhile he was at the X Games in LA.
Makeup is the extension of ourselves.
It’s the magic we seek, and it shows us other realms.
It shows belief beyond what we see.”
“The natural world outside of buildings and cement and cars is naturally colorful,” he begins.
When you’re colorful, you’re only reflecting what’s naturally here.
I want to be as close to the natural world as much as possible."
Color is neverjusta word to Duckwrth, either.
He equates each partof ROYGBIVto plants, foods, and feelings.
Green is avocados; brown is chocolate, he lists off.
Duckwrth’s short, loc’d hair was “very violent” a month ago (i.e.
Now, it’s “saturated bubblegum,” he says.
From there, Duckwrth went lavender, then, orange.
At any moment, all of his hair might just be buzzed off, though.
He doesn’t feel too attached to it.
Saturated bubblegum is only for this moment, a chapter marker if you will.
Soon enough, a new flavor will debut, and a fresh phase of his life will commence.
For a while, Duckwrth says red was a stop on his journey.
“I was a rager before,” he recalls.
“My shows were just rage, rage, rage, rage.
Now, they are calmer now.”
Enter: the orange period.
I don’t know what that story’s going to be, but we’ll see, he smiles.
I truly have no place to judge Duckwrth’s dedication to Santal 33.
