This is not a new collection name, but a series of really heartbreaking stories, that I am aggregating, in this post via @shitmodelmgmt for permanency during the holiday season when media is not working as much, and due to the nature of the stories being on various platforms (TikTok, IG, Twitter etc.).
The first victim to come forward publicly this week is model and artist, Owen Mooney. I have worked with Owen before and he told me this story four years at a time when he wasn’t able to communicate this publicly. As someone who has dealt with a predator before, I understand how hard it is for someone to come forward at the time it happens and it takes a great deal of strength to go face-to-face with a much loved public figure.
In a TikTok post about his weird experiences, Owen talks candidly about an event during New York Fashion Week in 2017 when, at a crowded Cupcakke club show, a “really famous fashion designer” began to “touch up” Owen’s crotch in a circumstance where he could not escape.
After the post started to gain traction on TikTok, comments began to appear on the post saying “it’s Alexander Wang”. Owen made a subsequent post addressing this with the designer’s name included. It was then picked up by fashion industry and much trusted Instagram account shitmodelmgmt who shared Owen’s posts and received a flurry of additional allegations and stories which are documented more permanently below.
I have included the full video from TikTok source (video 1, video 2) below as well as screen shots below of additional stories via @shitmodelmgmt‘s thread on Twitter.
The additional stories that are surfacing are really intense and focus on victims in the trans community, the rape of other male models and allegations of using clout, non consensual drugs and alcohol to take advantage of people.
One story says, “[Wang] had taken off his pants and was making him touch him and was trying to make him give him a bj even though he was straight and barely coherent”. Other stories say, “he raped my friend”, “he spanked me at a club”, “Wang is known for these things you are posting”. There are stories of spiked water with MDMA, a repercussion for one victim was that “the molly sent me into a manic episode followed by psychosis”. “I remember waking up in his bed being so confused, he had taken my pants off”, “he became very sexually aggressive” are from additional stories.
Further stories have surfaced that say “he practically forced my to take off my pants, rubbing his hands on my private parts and offered me another modelling jobs for a bj. I ran out feeling devastated and crushed experiencing all that age 18.”
Other sound bites from stories include “[he] fed me molly water without me knowing”, “he roofied two of my friends in 2014”, “he became very sexually aggressive and forceful when I declined his offer” and “I woke up stunned and confused and with a gash between my brows from the bottle he hit me with”.
Two posts from models also disclose specific addresses where Wang was resident at the time, ‘I wrote it down because I was debating going to the police. I was so drugged and drunk I have no idea what to do and felt so along and scared.”
A while back, international superstar Azealia Banks also posted about Alexander Wang being a “serial predator” on her Instagram with stories including one saying “a boy came out and said [Wang] raped him a a party as well”.
I hope sharing this can only help us all heal from these systemic and individual traumas, especially for Owen and Wang’s other victims. This way of treating people within the entertainment space has to come to an end (please bear in mind Bruce Weber and Mario Testino amongst others in the fashion industry who have also been proven to be predators are still working, booked and busy!). We must stop apologising for predatory behaviour and support and express gratitude and respect to those coming forward against major institutions and celebrities because it is a really difficult thing to do.
Peace and love, NEO 10Y
Header illustration by Dmitry Belov