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Early in April 2021, Calvin Klein American fashion house, universal byword for understated cool and, also, underwear with the name of a bisexual icon printed onto the waistband announced the appointment of Heron Preston as the brand’s new creative consultant. One of those amorphous roles that doesn’t necessarily mean anything at all but which, in the right hands, could easily mean something very special.
An artist, streetwear pioneer, DJ and creative director whose clothes betray an impish sense of humor, Preston is a divisive choice for a label like Calvin Klein, representing as he does a very particular generation of creatives those who came of age at the turn of the millennium and who, for better and for worse, were the first to really immerse themselves in the possibilities of the internet.