Popping culture: The Battle of the Houses

You don’t need to go to the ball anymore: the ball will come to you.

Filmmaker Clara Cullen has teamed up with Nowness to create an interactive website where various voguers from different houses, such as Balenciaga, McQueen and more, battle for supremacy.

Voguers battle it out, and you decide who goes on to the next round, unti finally, a winner is crowned.

It will leave you gagging for more. Check it out.

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