‘kentucky rain’

2025

Creative Direction, Clothing Design, Digital Modeling + Rendering, Styling and Photography by Sean Le.

“Showed your photograph to some old gray-bearded men
Sitting on a bench outside a general store
They said, "Yes, she's been here"
But their memory wasn't clear
Was it yesterday?
No, wait, the day before
Finally got a ride with a preacher man who asked
"Where you bound on such a cold dark afternoon?"
As we drove on through the rain, as he listened, I explained
And he left me with a prayer that I'd find you
Kentucky rain keeps pouring down
And up ahead's another town that I'll go walking through
With the rain in my shoes (rain in my shoes)
Searching for you
In the cold Kentucky rain...” - “Kentucky Rain”, Elvis Presley (1969)

In Presley’s search for old Kentucky, he finds it renewed after the wash of a rain.
This collection watches 1950’s Americana transform under unseen contemporary forces:
how nostalgia shifts when refracted through technology, culture, and time.

‘kentucky rain’

In Presley’s search for old Kentucky, he finds it renewed after the wash of a rain. This collection watches 1950’s Americana transform under unseen contemporary forces: how nostalgia shifts when refracted through technology, culture, and time.

In Presley’s search for old Kentucky, he finds it renewed after the wash of a rain.
This collection watches 1950’s Americana transform under unseen contemporary forces:
how nostalgia shifts when refracted through technology, culture, and time.