Lil Nas X, the new sulphurous fashion tech icon to follow ?
Customized Nike “Satan Shoes” by Lil Nas X, unveiled on March 29, 2021 and for sale on the American platform MSCHF (© MSCHF)
While, for a few days, Lil Nas X has aroused controversy with his latest hot music video Montero and his customized Nike “Satan Shoes”, flashback on the bling tech outbursts of the American rapper.
By Ludmilla Intravaia
No doubt, Lil Nas X knows how to arouse the interest of his fans and the disapproval of his detractors. A lap dance for the devil, in vertiginous striper thigh boots, in his latest music video Montero (Call Me By Your Name), released last Friday, earned him a large controversy. And BAM, scandal!
Yesterday, the facetious rapper striked again with the sale of 666 pairs of "Satan Shoes", numbered pairs of Nike Air Max 97, customized with a pentagram, a quote from the Gospel according to Luke and a drop of human blood added to the colored ink of the sole, an accessory that has provoked many outraged reactions across the Atlantic.
Customized Nike “Satan Shoes” by Lil Nas X, unveiled on March 29, 2021 and for sale on the American platform MSCHF (© MSCHF)
But for Le Boudoir Numérique, which looks at the world through the prism of technology, Lil Nas X is, above all, on the way to becoming the fashion tech rapper par excellence. Admittedly, not to the point of dethroning Lady Gaga, in her glam tech works (more info in this Boudoir Numérique article) but it is clear that his first exloration in the field of luminous outfits and his references to science fiction have had it followed closely by fans of bling tech, since the MTV Video Music Awards in August 2019 (more info in this Boudoir Numérique article).
Lil Nas X at the MTV VMA’s, August 26, 2019, in Newark (© MTV)
For the occasion, the American singer appeared on stage wearing an outfit straight out of Tron, the 1982 sci-fi film by Steven Lisberger, which has become a landmark of the fashion tech aesthetic. The dancers accompanying him wore luminous accessories on their legs and arms, devices all in all very effective in diverting attention from a particularly poor interpretation of the track Panini.
Panini's music video is inspired by another iconic sci-fi opus, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, also dating from 1982 and Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 from 2017 (more info in this Boudoir Numérique article).
Finally, his 2020 Rodeo music video is influenced by the Matrix trilogy (1999-2003) of the Wachowski sisters (more info in this Boudoir Numérique article).
To begin this second day of the week with a bit of sweaty fun, let's check out Lil Nas X's polemical Montero below.
* The Satan Shoes are for sale on the American platform MSCHF.
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