Cooper Callender’s collection “Sex and Conservatism” displays the relationship and irony of the two terms. He explores the sort of fetishistic importance that is traditionally placed on etiquette and codes of dressing. In turn, using this contradiction as a device, prompting desire and mystery while finding humor in the subversion, exaggeration, and tampering of formal signifiers. This line produces an image of female ingenuity through the disruption of men’s formal wear against a rebellious display of the casual. It offers reduced silhouettes with volume slashed in at the low hip and inventive bias cutting techniques, creating a feeling of effortlessness that exudes elegance with a sense of humor.