More question than Antwoord

Though fashion critics and buyers were enthralled by the designs at last week's New York Fashion Week, a conspicuous pair in the front row at Alexander Wang's show weren't as amused.

The Johannesburg-based duo Die Antwoord, who fronted the young designer's guerrilla-style T-line campaign, suggested this weekend that the front-row "privilege" normally reserved for the likes of editor-in-chief of American Vogue Anna Wintour was not special.

"It was f**king weird [sitting in the front row]. I'm never going to one of those things again. I couldn't see afterwards. I nearly had an epileptic fit from all the flashes in my face," Ninja said from Chicago after a club gig on Friday night.

The pair, Ninja and Yo-Landi, are still enjoying a purple patch with huge billboards of them erected in New York after their partnership with the 28-year-old designer and their appearance on the David Letterman Show earlier this month.

Ninja said: "We didn't know who the f**k he (Wang) was. He called me to ask if he could fly us to New York to take photographs of us and pay us. We thought that was weird."

He added: "He just wanted us to paint all over this white wall and then paint all over his clothes and wear them and I was like - err, okay, that sounds kind of nothing - but when you put on his T-shirts, it's like retardedly expensive sh*t but such nice material and cuts. I feel like such a sissy now."

Wang was so taken by the pair that he chose them to front his campaign, replacing American rockers Santigold and Spankrock.

But have they been bitten by the fashion bug after getting a taste of how it's done in one of the four fashion capitals of the world?

"Not at all. I don't care about that sh*t. We just like partying with Alexander. He's mental," Ninja said.

But while US fans have been going malgat for their music and live performances, a teaser promo video for their newly released album Ten$ion was last week pulled off the internet after resistance artist Jane Alexander took offence at the fact that the band referred to her sculpture, The Butcher Boys, without her consent.

Ninja said: "I've been chommies with Jane from a while back so when we did The Butcher Boys we did it as a surprise to show that we were influenced by her sculpture, but she didn't dig it. She was freaked out so we apologised and we just removed it. It's all over now."

Ninja revealed that they have been in contact with Celine Dion's management, but Dion had made it clear she "doesn't dig swearing".