“I have been more interested in fashion in the past few years,” says visual artist Muhammad Naqee. “I have so much respect for fashion designers. It’s so much tedious thinking and discipline.” Naqee, 30, is also a designer himself—he makes jewelry, bags, and hats, and often customizes his own clothing. On the day he was photographed, he was sporting a pair of Yeezy slides on which he painted his two older sisters as demons. He was also wearing rings and a necklace he created, a mask with a colorful camouflage he designed, and a T-shirt on which he wrote “My life is ending.” “It’s a realistic reminder that we’re always closer to death,” he explains. “Everything is slipping, slowly but surely. It’s not anything negative, though.”
