HuMobisten

The Real Deal

(Text from the official Vogel Visions DVD of HOW MAGIEL LA
RIVIERE DID NOT BECOME KING OF FASHION (dutch title: MLR /
portret van een ongekroonde modekoning) © HuMobisten 2002
Courtesy: Historisch Museum Rotterdam, 2003

Magiel La Rivière, born in the Rotterdam summer of ’69, dedicated
his life to creating his own street style fashion. In the early eighties
Magiel started making clothing in a quite unique style. Influenced by
both his alltime superheroin Coco Chanel and the eclectic fashion of
hip hop icons like Grandmaster Flash and later Erik B & Rakim.
His weird mixture of an upcoming (black) ‘hardcore’ culture, money,
cocaine, jewelry, caviar and limos is heavily embraced in the R&B
culture of the late ninetees and the now, but back then it was still
kind of hard to sell.
Magiel speaks his thoughts on the fashion industry, (bad) luck, taste,
his criminal background, his will to carry on and the friends that have
supported him throughout his life. Success, however, is not for all of
us. After setting up loads of shows by himself Magiel never got ‘picked
up’ by the media or the international fashion world.
As part of a group exhibition on Rotterdam fashion, the HuMobisten
made this short film about their ‘hero’ as a symbol of respect to a d.i.y.
fashion artist who has the bad luck of having a too distinctive taste.

Hopefully, we’ll be able to put some movie clips online soon. As soon
as they are we’ll let you know. In the meantime you have to use your
imagination and the jpeg image above.