Alright, so here’s the deal… last year Bernard Willhelm made a collection with Lebanese-French porn star François Sagat that was basically wrestling outfits with holes for the ass cheeks and penis.  When I first saw it, I have to say I was pretty annoyed, I felt like it embodied the trend in menswear to make these ridiculous garments that are totally and utterly unwearable to say the least.  That is a pretty logical position all in all, wouldn’t you say? Right, which is why I don’t really know why I changed my mind, but I did. In a big way.  In fact, now I’m sort of obsessed with wrestling fashion…

I think I’ve been getting closer and closer to accepting wrestling fashion for a while though, especially after the sundress bloodbath outfits which were a lot of fun to make and all more or less in the singlet spirit, but the straw that broke the camel’s back was probably seeing Israel’s wrestling outfit at a party a couple weeks ago.  I think just seeing it out and about made me realize that not only is it a possibility, it might be a necessity.  

And you know what, it makes a lot of sense, I think… Aside from the blatantly wonderful homoerotic overtones, wrestling is a cheap and easy way to stay physically fit and therapeutically it is healthy to make physical contact with your friends even if it’s not necessarily sexual.  As a martial art, wrestling is also definitely in the spirit of diy self defense, which I think is the future of anarchist organizing and something that in it’s little way, lessens our mental reliance on the state.  

As far as precedents for anarchist wrestlers, just think of ultimate fighting man, Jeff “The Snowman” Monson, who is known as “one of the world’s top submission grapplers” and is a self proclaimed anarchist, and who incidentally was convicted last week for tagging the circle a at a protest. btw/wtf!

But as far as professional wrestling goes I, honestly, no next to nothing and it will most likely stay that way, though I did closely follow my friend Jessie’s assent in the Denver Lucha Libre Association to her place as one of the legs in the organization’s ‘tripod’ and then her quick descent and near excommunication, but that’s another story.  Oh and I also know that El Santo fought for the common man and that makes him alright in my book… 

So anyway, in that spirit I’m making a whole collection of wrestling singlets for Free Boutique model Noah Weiss’ going away party this Saturday, whether he likes it or not, and all in all I’m pretty damn excited.  The party is at 721 Elati and the fashion show will be at 11 if you want to come down…