The Thousands

THE GREAT ESCAPE is more than a 1963 McQueen classic, it is a girl wearing Chanel. Coated in luxe branding, she is no longer a student from a suburban shithole, she is cultured and wealthy; she is someone else.

Jacqueline Fraser’s collage hurdles us from everyday banality into a fashionable place far far away; it’s MAGIQUE darling. Cloaked in couture, Fraser’s ladies are icons of an industry that thrives on escape. Beautiful and desperate, they say things like:**"If that notorious Elizabeth Taylor devotee slips teensy four leaf clovers in her Chanel couture, baby, she’ll be the next big thing."

and

"If that vile Monica Belluci groupie rubs garlic in her Jimmy Choos, she’ll be the next D & G Madonna, sweetie."

Kindly draped in gas masks, as to protect them from our toxic air and sat next to jet planes, which they may ride into the sky; Fraser’s magic people are surreal, safe, and like a fading Blanche DuBois, sad.