Iconic fashion designer sells feet videos on OnlyFans to fundraise for trans shelter
Designer Rick Owens is selling feet videos on OnlyFans to fundraise for a trans shelter (SAVIKO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Bisexual icon Rick Owens has announced he will be selling videos of his feet in order to raise money for at-risk trans youth and refugees.
The fashion designer revealed on Instagram on 15 July that he would be selling videos of his feet on his new OnlyFans account, with the proceeds going to the La Maison D’Allanah trans shelter in Versailles, France.
Announcing the move with a video of his feet with “SO C*NT” written or tattooed on them, Owens wrote: “In conjunction with the opening of my ‘Temple of Love’ exhibition at the Palais Galliera, I have opened an OnlyFans account to raise funds for the Allanah Foundation, an organization created by trans pioneer Allanah Starr to provide scholarships, mentorship programs, and resources for at-risk and in-danger trans youth and refugees.”
Actress and performer Starr, who founded the shelter, said: “I can’t truly express the gratitude I feel for this immense gesture of not only offering financial support, but for shining light on a neglected part of our community, LGBT refugees.”
She added that the shelter, which provides “emergency accommodation for victims of LGBTphobia and people in extreme poverty” helps those who “often survive the imaginable to only arrive in France and face homelessness, exploitation, hunger, insecurity, and have to often rely [on] social apps and have [sex] with strangers just for a place to sleep amongst other injustices”.
Rick Owens explained that the inspiration behind his OnlyFans came from a woman named Contessa di Castiglione, an Italian aristocrat who became famous for sitting for photographic portraits in the 1800s, which were new at the time.
“As her beauty faded, she retreated to an apartment in the Place Vendôme where she had the mirrors removed and the curtains closed and only did portraits of her feet until she died,” he explained.
He also explained that the project is “all about my own negotiations with self-display, vanity, and aging.”
Owens’ support of La Maison D’Allanah comes as a new trans homeless shelter geared specifically towards housing trans individuals experiencing homelessness has opened in New York City.
The shelter, known as Ace’s Place, is specifically for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals experiencing homelessness, and states it is a “community-driven answer to systemic neglect”.
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