'I think the way kids approached fashion in 2016 (when the show is set) is still relevant today. Calvin's image, of a solitary teenage girl drinking a Modelo beer, is prophetic after failing to make friends with other teenagers at the beach, Fraser spends the day alone, getting drunk, and later bloodies the T shirt after a fall. Fraser's obsession with high fashion is immediately obvious in this scene he wears a Raf Simons S/S 13 T-shirt featuring an eerie painting by Los Angeles painter Brian Calvin, paired with adidas Y-3 drop-crotch leopard print shorts.

'You know Raf Simons? You're a fucking genius,' he tells her, innocuously snapping pictures of the clothes on his iPhone. His mother Sarah, a US Army colonel played by Chloë Sevigny, has moved the family from New York City to a US army base in Italy, and Fraser (played by Jack Dylan Grazer) is like a fish out of water in the alien, rural terrain of Chioggia.Īfter some locals offer him a carton of wine to drink, a woman working at a sewing machine on a table strewn with pixelated camo military gear sparks his interest. In episode 1 of We Are Who We Are, Luca Guadagnino's eight-part HBO series, 14-year-old Fraser wanders around the Italian seaside town of Chioggia alone in the sweltering midday sun, his hair dripping with sweat, ensconced in Kanye West's luscious 'Devil in a New Dress' via a pair of earphones.

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