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Out Designer Willy Chavarria Drops Cheeky New Capsule Collection
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 1 MIN.
Gay designer Willy Chavarria and studio Latino Fan Club have teamed up for a titillating collab that features a fun, provocative capsule collection.
Dazed reported that "the limited edition capsule includes some decidedly NSFW items" such as a "tongue-in-cheek 2025 calendar that promises 'man meat muscle studs,'" a riff on "the sleazy iconography of the '90s and '00s" that "even comes with a cock ring..."
Another explicit offering is "the 'Dirty Will Zine,'" which Dazed explained is "a homage to the plastic-wrapped top shelf mags of yesteryear, with its steamy images remastered by art director Jess Cuevas."
The collections includes clothing, too. "Graphic-heavy t-shirts, hoodies and baseball caps make up the majority of the apparel," Dazed noted, "which luckily includes a tee with 'Big Willy Boys' emblazoned on the back."
In another wink at porn stylings of the past, the goods will "be available at Dover Street Market in both New York and LA, where the Chavarria team have pop-ups designed to look like 90s-era X-rated video stores, complete with duct-taped glory holes and rows of VHS," Dazed detailed.
The writeup recalled that Latin Fan Club was "[f]ounded in New York in 1985" in order to "cater... to an audience largely ignored by the white and mainstream studios of the time," namely the gay Latin community.
Chavarria maintains his own brand even as he serves at Calvin Klein as the Senior Vice President of Design. The Willy Chavarria site currently features images of items emblazoned with porn studio Latino Fan Club's logo, from tees to socks to ball caps.
Check out some of the looks of Chavarria's line on Instagram.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
