The youngest nomination in the prestige LVMH fashion competition, Vejas Kruszewski receives the 2016 special prize. Exploring both gender fluidity and a rigid sense of construction—the latter, no doubt, a remnant from his self-taught education via Japanese patterning magazines—the 19-year-old Canadian calls to mind a clashing vulnerability that edges on both hard and soft for his eponymous label. Here, photographer Étienne Saint-Denis takes an intimate look at Vejas Fall/Winter 2016 for Document. A token from a lifelong collection of snippets kept by the designer, “remember when the earth would quake between my thighs,” it is in these anonymous words that we’ll begin.