Axel is an American designer from Colorado, and his practice takes inspiration from the wild west, and re-exploring a lawless land with strange surrealist magic. Yeans, developed at the RCA, is the name of the body of work shown. It consists of wildly graphic trompe l’oeil denim, a post apocalyptic take on an American classic, and bespoke fur pieces from salvaged animals. Yeans is American fashion. The embodied spirit of the abandoned western front. A conspiracy theory covered in raw, masculine swag. A blur of a wild animal caught on camera in the middle of the night. Paranoia masquerading as an ironic idolization of the American west. Yeans is the distorted result of a distorted America, laced with inner turmoil, re-exploring a lawless land.