Balleth Meccanicue is an evolving garment system rooted in Guadalajara. Born from the urge to distort and reframe dominant aesthetics, it proposes fashion not as product, but as residue of history and culture.

The brand operates as an exploration of subaltern aesthetics, visual errancy, and misaligned beauty. Drawing from Mexican counter-histories, postmodern saturation, and the spectral pulse of High NRG music from the 1980s, Balleth Meccanicue constructs a wearable archive of collapse and collision. Its collections channel the visual noise of underground dance flyers, the hypnotic symmetry of sonidero illustrations, and the architectural boldness of Polymarchs’ light shows and stage design.
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Layered within each piece is a devotion to excess and rupture: irony, raw sensuality, overstated cuts, and graphic aggression. Garments do not simply clothe; they vibrate with sonic memory, haunt with visual residue, and enact transformation through dissonance.

References span from the visceral print culture of 1980s Mexican mixtapes to the Xeroxed angst of U.S. hardcore punk ephemera. Each silhouette borrows from uniforms, relics, and ornamental dysfunction contorted through the lens of subcultural romanticism.

These pieces are contradictions in motion: precise yet unresolved, sculptural yet decomposing, ceremonial yet street-worn. The project is deeply informed by visual and sonic vocabularies of the past: the graphic work of Jaime Ruelas (Polymarchs) and Gwenaël Rattke, the fragmented futurism of Mexican 80s bands like Size, Casino Shanghai, and Avant Garde, and the raw synthetics of acts such as Suicide, Tangerine Dream, Severed Heads, Patrick Cowley, Chris & Cosey, Silver Apples, and Divine.

These references act not as nostalgia, but as blueprints for disobedient design, rooted in analog excess, sexual energy, and visual overload. Rather than follow linear trends, BM exists as a shifting ecosystem. It feeds on experimentation, misfit collaborations, and communal circuitry.

Balleth Meccanicue is not interested in clean conclusions. It operates as a living registry of garments, mechanical items, and alternate material logics for common use and the promotion of transgressive, raw, incoherent perspectives.