An autumn warehouse pop-up party unfolded in the inner-city of Sydney, Australia to mark the launch of Citizen Outlier’s FW26 edit.
Music, art and performance unfolded throughout the scene, alongside a curation of independent Chinese fashion labels. A space to connect through shared stories of who we are and who we’re becoming.
Thanks to your support, Citizen Outlier contributed $500 to the Soul of Chinatown Rice Fund, comprising 10% of ticket sales, alongside personal donations from Citizen Outlier and Maia our kickass Event Management Assistant. The Rice Fund is a grassroots community initiative providing essential food care packages and connection to vulnerable elderly Chinese-Australians in Sydney.
A lineup of local creatives shaped the day.
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Engraving Station
Olympia (@reptilianspacealien) offered live engraving on a select range of our accessories, including the Sculpted Carabiner and Precision Micro-Capsule. Guests could choose a piece and have it engraved on the spot, turning each object into something truly personal.
Olympia is best known for their etching-style tattoo work, drawing on natural forms, abstract linework and ornamental metal references, which was translated into the pieces created on the day.
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Art Installation
Jesse Vega (@iessevega) is a visual artist working across photography, video and digital environments. His practice explores ideas around identity, technology and the body through constructed dreamlike spaces and virtual imagery.
Engaged with themes surrounding digital futurity, post-humanism and the screen as embodiment, Jesse’s body of work explored the influence of the digital network on identity through dreamscapes and virtual avatars.
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Sound
⬙ UKG ⬙ house ⬙ techno ⬙ disco ⬙ electro ⬙ hyperpop ⬙ experimental ⬙ refracted through a fashion lens
DAN+EE (@dannyrispler) opened with a self-produced set moving between experimental electronics, rap, reggaeton and Latin underground sounds. DAN+EE is the co-organiser of the infamous Baile De La Calle street party, where sound moves beyond the booth and into the street.
SHANGHAI BBY (@shanghai_bby) followed with a fast, flirty set with glitz and glamour stealing the show. Equal parts precision and attitude, she paired seamless mixing with a polished fashion edge, spinning hot high-energy tracks with style and confidence.
ODD CURLTURE (@shaheer_ahsan96) wielded a low-end pressure focus, moving between experimental UKG and hard-hitting basslines that sit heavy and roll deep. During the high-energy set, multidisciplinary performing artist FIZZY ISSY (@fizzy_issy_) live-sampled her own violin and breakdanced, layering sound and movement in real time.
SWEETBIX closed with a live set of hypnotic, loop-led experimental house, disco and techno. Slightly off-grid in feel, the set stayed groove-focused in sonic storytelling — locking the floor in a steady, sustained rhythm.
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Tarot, Crystals and Rituals
Christy held a more intimate pocket of the warehouse across the afternoon — a soft, shifting counterpoint to the floor. Tarot readings unfolded one-on-one, cards laid and turned in their own time, while strands of beads were threaded by hand, each piece assembled meditatively.
People moved through, sat, and stayed for mysticism and revelation. The exchange was intuitive — part reading, part ritual, part pause and contemplation. A slower pace and flow intertwining the rest of the day, subtle but grounding.
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Citizen Outlier’s FW26 Edit
Fashion has long travelled alongside underground culture.
From the confrontational tailoring of the Seditionaries era in late-1970s London to the DIY club nights that emerged in Wuhan’s warehouse districts in recent years, garments and sound have often circulated through the same unofficial networks.
Across cities shaped by nightlife — from Belgrade’s river-barge club culture to Sarajevo’s improvised post-war venues — music and dress have continued to evolve through independent scenes.
Somewhere between underground street realism and studio minimalism, the FW26 edit draws upon both the sartorial and cultural references of early-2000s Antwerp fashion and the atmosphere of underground club and warehouse spaces — filtered through a younger, DIY and street-aware sensibility of China’s emerging fashion houses.
The collection explores a subversive and renegade approach to dress, informed by utility and a restrained avant-garde sensibility with a youth subculture influence.
Less as seasonal offering than a system of garments in anti-luxury — pieces that deliberately prioritise structure, movement, and texture over spectacle.
From day-to-night, those worlds converged at the Citizen Outlier Pop-Up Day Party.
Sydney, Australia.
On unceded Gadigal Land. Always was, always will be.
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Acknowledgements
Art installation
JESSE VEGA (@iessevega)
Engraving
OLYMPIA SCHULTE (@reptilianspacealien)
Lineup
DAN+EE (@dannyrispler)
SHANGHAI BBY (@shanghai_bby)
ODD CURLTURE (@shaheer_ahsan96)
SWEETBIX
Performance
FIZZY ISSY (@fizzy_issy_)
Tarot, Crystals and rituals
CHRISTY POTTER (@christyxpotter)
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Creative Direction: @citizenoutlier
Sales & Styling: @citizenoutlier, @honeybee_jazz (Los Angeles, USA)
Sound & Lighting: @et.sound, @itspenca
Stage: @mistaharvyj
Photography: @jayisipjayisipjayisip, @yohowslife
Video: @lonnieboy
Door: @doubleimpacttaekwondo, @naiksmera
