While hardcore Paris Fashion Week ravers have Nicolas De Felice’s Courrèges blowout to look forward to each season – with previous outings seeing the designer take over dilapidated department stores, dingy underground car parks, and enlist the likes of LSDXOXO and Pandora’s Jukebox to step behind the decks – until recently, there wasn’t a whole lot going on in Milan. That all changed when Jordan Bowen and Luca Marchetto of JordanLuca left London behind in 2022 and landed on the official MFW schedule, and in the process injected the notoriously high-glam, va-va-voom fashion week with something a little more subversive.
With the catwalk covered, in early 2023 the two turned their attention to lighting up the Milanese techno scene by throwing a massive rave at the dusty warehouse space their AW23 show happened in hours earlier. Calling on friends Cem Dukkha and Nicolas Enlicher of legendary Berlin-based queer party Herrensauna to DJ, the cold January night was heated up as sweaty people writhed up against each other on the dance floor or otherwise made the most of the free bar (as fashion people are notorious for rinsing).
This weekend, in celebration of their standout AW24 show – which saw Andreas Kronthaler and iconic 90s supermodel Debra Shaw stomp down the runway in a collection that channelled 70s punk and 80s power-dressing – came JordanLuca’s second official afterparty. Taking over a series of freezing cold catacombs, throbbing techno reverberated off the crumbling walls as partygoers filled the red-lit dance floor, drank Bulldog cocktails, made out in darkened corners, and huddled in plastic garden chairs to smoke cigs and get lost in deep and meaningfuls.
On hand to capture it all exclusively for Dazed was photographer Roxy Lee – click through the gallery above for a closer look, and scroll down for a gallery of the AW24 collection.