The Shithole Opry Collector’s Guide

Welcome to The Shithole Opry Collector’s Guide, Derek McCormack’s devilish blend of art and fiction. This flashy new lookbook documents Hillbilly Heaven, a 1950s collection created by Westwood and McLaren for hillbilly vampires to wear to the Grand Ole Opry, the mother church of country music. From safety pin fangs to punk Minnie Pearl pearl necklaces, The Shithole Opry Collector’s Guide showcases all manner of star-studded shit from the collection, accompanied by a foreword by McLaren and a reprint of a review from a long-lost issue of Vampire Vogue magazine. The book is a riff on Westwood and McLaren’s work of the 1970s, which reimagined American rockabilly and rocker gear; it’s also a perversion of the clean-cut Christian facade of much country music. Most of all, it’s a parody of the way fashion designers pirate the past for inspiration, as it poses the question: What if the past stole from fashion the way fashion steals from the past?