Virgil Ortiz - Upcycled Futuristic Battle Armor
Modeled by Drew Taylor
Billboard Artwork by Teresa Dunlap
Featured in ArtPop’s 6th Annual Upcycled Fashion Show & Community Arts Fundraiser
The Storm Sentinel stands at the threshold of chaos—silent, unshaken, precise. Inspired by Virgil Ortiz’s character from ReVolt 1680/2180, this garment embodies strength, resistance, and ancestral memory. Cut from a reclaimed billboard, the fabric carries its own history—weathered, sun-worn, transformed into armor that catches light like obsidian in rain. ReVolt 1680/2180 reimagines the 1680 Pueblo Revolt 500 years into a dystopian future, where warriors and time travelers defend ancestral memory across generations.
Runway photography by Rico Marcelo. White backdrop photography by Robb Webb.
Meet the Designer:
Virgil Ortiz is one of today’s most visionary artists — fusing Pueblo culture with sci-fi, fantasy, and fashion to create unleashed new worlds. Drawing from ancestral storytelling and his family’s legacy of Cochiti Pueblo potters, Ortiz transforms clay, couture, film, and digital media into futuristic narratives that captivate audiences worldwide. His sage Revolt 1680/2180 reimagines Pueblo history with time-traveling warriors, igniting Futurism on the global stage. With exhibitions from Paris to Miami, Ortiz inspires a new generation to see art as rebellion, resistance, and survival — blazing a path where culture collides with imagination, and the future is unbound.
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