Brooklyn, 1976) founded fashion and lifestyle label The Bohemian Society in Downtown LA in 2003, where he continues to live, work, and produce his signature brand of postpunk couture. An emerging staple of international progressive fashion, Wilde’s designs and custom pieces can be seen everywhere from Tokyo Fashion Week to MTV to the avantgarde stage. With a background in visual and performance
art, Wilde approaches fashion as an artistic undertaking, pursuing a combination of mixed-media design and handwrought craft, incorporating elements of painting, text, and sculptural assemblage into the fineart clothing that bears his crest. Wilde sees fashion as the ultimate forum for a literally and metaphorically collaborative, interactive art form. When Wilde says he thinks of fashion as an art form, he doesn’t mean you should frame your clothes. He means he wants his clients to be delighted and surprised to encounter clothing that makes them feel the way art is supposed to make people feel smart and emotional and kindred to something outside themselves; reflective of something hidden and essential about the world; beautiful and dark with evidence of how it's made inherent in the finished object; enduring,but of its time. -Shana Nys Dambrot