Upcycled chenille blanket coat collection, side tie dresses, and sheet hoodies by BS
Models Nikki Brown + Gamut
Photos by Leone Julitte
Photos by Caitlyn Ridenour
Models Jason Derek North, Sarah Jane Bealafeld, Drew Statham
Costume design for A Streetcar Named Desire at the Marigny Opera Ballet
Choreography Diogo De Lima
Photos by Scott Saltzman
Costume design for Secrets of the Universe performance installation at Where in the Woods, Bonnaroo, 2023
Photos by Leone Julitte
Persephone
Garment Sauvageries
Photos by Satori Nightshade
SAUVAGERIES • handmade blue hair prom dream dress for Tasche de la Rocha at Fifi Mahoney's • photo by Jason Derek North
‘Trashtan’ made from a roll of discarded plastic tablecloth material for Precious Ephemera’s Caftan Salon at Hotel Peter and Paul
Haus of Trouble
Photos by Leone Julitte
Featured in Antigravity Magazine
Orange fur bra and shrug for Bbymutha “DIY”
Produced by Huemid Haus
Good Luck suit, all handmade ensemble ft. custom appliqué patches
Photos by Avery Leigh White
Trash bag gowns made for Femaissance: Gemini
Photos by Leone Julitte
Visqueen gown for Visqueen
Custom wrestling singlet for Raid
Chokehole, 50th anniversary of World Pride in New York
Photos by Tod Seelie
Featured in Vice “These Glorious Photos Show the Subversive World Where Drag Meets Wrestling”
Photos by John Sims
Marionette by Soni Haze
Lord Cheeto
Mardi Gras 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Foam Cheeto prop by Richard Siday
Featured in Squarespace’s end-of-year campaign, Dark Matter, alongside four other Squarespace users
Trash bag dress by BS
Wedding gown with detachable skirt for Boyfriend
Pink wrestling singlet for Jassy
Chokehole New Orleans
December 2019
Photos by Aaron Sarles
Chaps and assymmetrical top Sauvageries
Photos by Leone Julitte
Teal crop blazer for HugoGyrl
Performed as Hank Fields with Ivanka Claiborne for Chokehole, drag wrestling event presented by High Profile and Hugo Gyrl
Featured on Deadspin “Where Drag Queens Drop From the Rafters” by Alison Fensterstock, photos by Tod Seelie
Tie dye rainbow two-piece stretch set Sauvageries
Photos by Leone Julitte
DEATH OF AMERICA • The Nude Suit, an experiment in plush genitalia and the mutability of costume • photo by Dante Gentile
Sparkle chaps and two-piece stretch set Sauvageries
Photos by Leone Julitte
Trash tent and garments Sauvageries
Photo by @half _ cat _ half _ pizza
Matching costumes for Daddy Issues at RuPaul DragCon 2018 in New York
Trash bag couture Sauvageries
Ostara Ball 2019
Praying mantis costume Sauvageries
Mardi Gras 2020
Recreated Angelina Polacheck’s Music Box house, the Tintinnabulation Station, at New Orleans Airlift’s Music Box Village in New Orleans, Louisiana using all reclaimed materials.
photo of rapper Delish in the Tintinnabulation Station by Bryan Tarnowski
Fibonacci ruffle costume
Mardi Gras 2017
Handmade plush Joanie on the Pony costume for the 10th annual parade with the Krewe de Jeanne d'Arc, January 6, 2019 •
Photo 1 by Leone Julitte (2019)
Photo 2 by Irina Filatova (2018)
Featured in Residents celebrate kickoff of Carnival season with parades, fireworks on WWLTV
Created fabric suit for large cat puppet character in The Subletter’s Omen, a play followed by an immersive haunted house experience
Built a Bourbon Street Hellscape installation within the haunted house using trash found on Bourbon Street, namely hand grenade cups
Featured in The New Orleans Advocate/Gambit: “Swipe left for terror: ‘The Subletter’s Omen’ is a comedy about bad roommates and worse hookups”
Giant plush watch created for TimeWillTell Watches
Photo by Avery Leigh White
Trash puffer jacket Sauvageries
Satellite Art Fair SXSW 2019
Photo by Leone Julitte
Drippy smiley tees Sauvageries
Photos by Leone Julitte
I Am A Long Detour on the Way to Transcendence
Carried golden apple slice for the Eris parade
Costume by B.S.
Earth banner by B.S., Renee Anderson, Sasha Birman with assistance from Maria Sandhammer
Photos by Leone Julitte
St. Anne's Parade, Mardi Gras 2016 • handmade AstroTurf suit with materials sourced entirely from the St. Roch Cemetery
Fur bras, matching sets, chaps, mesh dress, body suit by Sauvageries
Styled by Brooke Sauvage
Muse: Raae of Luna Raae
Photos by Aaron Sarles
Costume design by Brooke Sauvage
Aguas de Dezembro
Choreography by Diogo DeLima
Photo by Bobby Bonsey
Marigny Opera Ballet
Sauvageries tulle dresses
Styled by Brooke Sauvage
Photos by Maggie Geis
Featured in feature film #streetpunxofyangon
Trash Temple
Installation
Ostara Ball 2019
Participated as a back up dancer in Peaches Snisker’s live show at New Orleans Airlift’s Music Box Village October, Friday the 13th, 2017 with the Flaming Flagettes
Costumes by Charlie Le Mindu
Photos 1-2 by Jason Derek North
Photo 3 by Allison Greene
Custom smoking jacket with applique patch for Q
Toilet seat hat
Thanksgiving at the tracks 2017
Nude Suit
Womens March
Denver 2017
Accidental Lady Gaga
Mardi Gras 2018
Gown originally produced for Frothpocalypse featured in gallery show Femaissance: Proserpina
October 2018
Photo by Leone Julitte
RICH MAN, POOR MAN:
SARTORIAL EXPLORATION OF GENTEEL SILHOUETTES
Photos by Avery Leigh White
Models: Rosanna Wyatt, Amelia Senter, Will Spartalis
Second annual fashion fundraiser presented by Carousel
benefitting Dark Roots NOLA
Event produced by Sami Nichols
Costume design by B.S., Cowboy Prince, and Humble Haberdasher
Set design by Sami Nichols, Steven Ma, Shea Fleshprism
HAT- Humble Haberdasher
LEATHER- Hellbent
YARN- Kizza Lilitu/Yung Hag
MAKEUP- Alex Kilburn
PHOTOS- Leone Julitte
What Dreemz May Come? for Pelican Bomb • handmade Mardi Gras collection in collaboration with Humble Haberdasher • photos by Naima Noguera
Bourbon Street Strippers Are Fighting Intrusive Regulations for VICE • words by Brooke Sauvage • photos by Avery White
Created purple leotards with gold fringe detail for Nick and Dan’s music video, "That’s the One”
Video produced by Huemid Haus
Photo 2 by Naima Noguera
Costume design by Brooke Sauvage
Sacred Harp
Choreography by Kellis Oldenburg-McSparrin
Photos by Bobby Bonsey
Marigny Opera Ballet
Handmade boudoir collection for Satellite Art Show, Miami Art Basel, December 2017 • hats by Humble Haberdasher // photos by Bibiana Medkova
I'LL DRAIN HIM DRY AS HAY
Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his penthouse lid
He shall live a man forbid
Weary sev'n nights, nine times nine
Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine.
Though his bark cannot be lost
Yet it shall be tempest tossed.
Look what I have.
-THE WEIRD SISTERS, MACBETH
Boyfriend, Emily Alben, and Lune Noirr in handmade
bandana bralette
wide leg ruffle trousers
cabaret robe with feather boa +
matching playsuit
at Mr. Tim's Dollhouse • photos by Mike Shane
Created psychedelic nun costumes for Flow Tribe’s Voodoo Festival performance, October 2017
Habits handmade by B.S.
Headpieces by Humble Haberdasher
Photos by J. Gildy
Silk & Smoke, choreographed by Gretchen Erickson for Marigny Opera Ballet • costume designer, producer * men's tapered joggers + hand-dyed slips • photos by Elsa Hahne
The California Tribe the California Government Tried to Erase in the 1960s for Vice • Photos by Avery White
Performed on rollerskates to Shania Twain “Man I Feel Like A Woman” featuring handmade nude suit #2
Photo 1 by Sarrah Danziger
Photo 2 by Linka Odom
Boyfriend in handmade alphabet soup appliqué dress • photography by Delaney Royer
ELEMENTAL,
A STUDY IN RUFFLES
Collection debuted at Satellite Art Fair, Miami Art Basel
December 2018
Tulle dresses by Brooke Sauvage
Denim harnesses by Raae of Luna.Raae
Hats by Humble Haberdasher
Photos by @madsummerdavid
Featured in World of Wonder #ArtBasel18: Ruben Natal San Miguel Captures Some Sexy Artists & Looks Through “Spicy Curtains”
Handmade Venus Flytrap costume with plush shoulders • photos by John Sims • model Yamil Rodriguez • Originally made for Halloween in October 2015, then trotted out to Jean Lafitte for a proper conceptual send off!
THE LANGUAGE OF DREEMZ • handmade bandana bralettes • photo by Lucy Olive
SAUVAGERIES • handmade bandana bralettes • photos by Andrew DuPuy
SWAMPOCALYPSE was a fashion show displaying a conceptual collection of wearable art in collaboration with Humble Haberdasher and the Cowboy Prince. All garments handmade by the Cowboy Prince and Brooke Sauvage with hats by Humble Haberdasher.
Photography @bordelonza
Fundraiser for trans youth in New Orleans. Raised $1,000.
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THE CATS CLAW REIGNS SUPREME IN NEW ORLEANS.
Most traces of man skulk in the submerged city like bygone barges and boldly rusted bottlecaps, evidence of a time past, of lost time, in what used to be known as the birthplace of jazz, the home of blackened redfish, the Crescent City.
Now they call it the Sunken City, the Latest Atlantis. Those who remain, anyway.
In 2018, New Orleans celebrated its 300th birthday with a pedestrian mall on Bourbon Street, an outlet mall on the Riverwalk, and the citywide expansion of a private police task force. AirBnBs and boutique hotels duked it out for prime real estate on brightly colored street blocks. A 2 o’clock curfew was imposed. Live music could only be heard before midnight, not to exceed a gentle lullaby. A pipeline between Texas and Louisiana barreled through the legislature, lubed along by lobbyists.
And to think, it all started when they took away go cups.
The citizens began as a trickle and ended up a deluge. Oogles squatted AirBnBs in protest. Canoe catamarans thronged the marshes; music tinkled over the empty offshore in ethereal floating cities. Impromptu parades swarmed the city’s major thoroughfares; a rogue krewe hijacked the Rampart streetcar line and rode along passing out satsumas from neighbors’ trees.
There was hope then - until they came.
The men in uniforms appeared in Jackson Square one day, under the snorting, rearing horse. Nothing would ever be the same again.
The Battle of Esplanade erupted in a blaze of motion & glory! when a busking musician raised her violin under a full moon, refusing to abide by the noise ordinance. Citizens downriver banded together against the uptown alliance headed by Mitch Landrieu, Sidney Torres, and the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association. The downtown bandits went by many names, and came together in many krewes, but when it was important, they called themselves: Swampocolytes.
The Swampocolytes established a boundary that day. Backyard speakeasies unfurled in joyous celebration amongst the jasmine and homemade batches of pirate’s absinthe; flags stood in every yard that sang out RESIST. RESIST. RESIST. A tenuous peace was felt for the first time since the uprising.
But then the pipeline broke. Whether by accident or by sabotage, no one would say. Toxic waste seeped into the groundwater. Chemical lagoons coiled in culverts and bayous, and strange fanged creatures grew new appendages and haunted new corners.
But when Hurricane Jezebel came to spit on the city, neither side was spared.
Some how, by some groovy way, some strange Swampocalights survived - between St. Roch, the 7th Ward, the Marigny, and the Bywater. They found each other, wading through the gators and the fanged fish; they found each other, foraging for swamp fruit and nutria fur; they found each other, in a cobblestone courtyard where hope did again bloom.
THIS IS
SWAMPOCALYPSE.
Clothing handmade by Brooke Sauvage • photos by Avery White
Handmade crushed velvet leotards in Stacy Hoover's Wonderland • photos by Jason Derek North • models Boyfriend, Sarah Jane Bealafield, Wayne Xia, Christo Martin
L’AUBE • handmade lingerie and goddess jacket • photography by Daniel Grey
Christmas Cocktails at the Marigny Opera House • Designed and produced handmade, hand-dyed men's performance shirts for Diversorios, choreographed by Nikki Hefko • Photos by Elsa Hahne
