Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY S/S 25 '10' LIVESTREAM

Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY S/S 25 ‘10’ 7th June 2024 at Somerset House, London. 10 is a visual and material milestone in LOVERBOY’s history, a meditation on the enduring themes and temporalities that shape our universe. Departing from our previous narrative driven approach, 10 has found its form through an exploration of ‘queer time’ the idea that queerness shapes not only our sense and understandings of gender and sexuality, but also our experiences of time itself and our relations to past, present and future. Our design process was led by consideration of the ways that clock time shapes social life and thus becomes tied to expectation and notions of respectability. Nods towards nightwear and undergarments jostle against references to formality and outerwear, in a muddling of sartorial codes of labour and leisure, public and private. Through drape and deconstruction we’ve sought to cultivate a sense of becoming and undoing, evoking clothing pulled hurriedly around the body and the gradual unravelling of a look over the course of a day.Ringed eyes and tousled hair hint further at the realm of slumber, refracted through a distinctly post punk sensibility. This rumination on liminality, precarity and flux extends through the show’s accompanying soundscape. Produced in collaboration with composer Luca Manning and performed by Somerset House Studios choir, the piece draws on personal experiences of queerness and transition, augmented by an improvisatory process that explores the