The Italian’s arrival as Gucci’s creative director was more like an alien invasion than a typical fashion coronation. It was fast. Overwhelming. Utterly strange and world-dominating. Michael Ebert and Sven Michaelsen visited Michele in Rome to discuss the burden of vanity, the terror of symmetry, and the faith of being devoted to objects.

What if Morrissey was Black? What if Kurt Cobain was from Tijuana? These are the rhetorical prompts that guide Jean Dawson’s discography. In a new interview, the musician and filmmaker recounts a childhood shaped by Tumblr, Blockbuster and Mexican-American border tensions. Discussing his sophomore album, CHAOS NOW*, Dawson illuminates the overlooked similarities between lowriders and fawns and what it means to be “a monster of your own experience.”

Through ICEBERG’s FW-22 collection, DARIA KOLOSOVA and ÁLVARO GUILHERME experiment with notions of sound and visuality, and how the two realms can be interlaced, in a speculative shoot.

20 years after its inception in 1995, the Raf Simons label had become an oracle for a pre-Internet notion of beauty and freedom. It’s a brand rooted in the site specificity of IRL subculture, the iconoclasm of 20th century design, and the melodramatic land-scape of suburban isolation. Yet, after 40 collections and counting, the man behind RAF SIMONS remains an enigma. Published for the first time online, 032c’s dossier on Simons from our instantly sold out 27th issue includes an essay and interview, an archival shoot by Willy Vanderperre, and a poem by Peter De Potter.

In the second edition of her column BRENDA'S BUSINESS, BRENDA WEISCHER aka @brendahashtag, talks with famed makeup artist and business owner ISAMAYA FFRENCH on the physical strength needed to lug kits to runways shows, and the dangers birds pose to interview subjects such as herself.

Forgive me Lord, for I have Drained.

Who gets to decide when poor-quality secondhand clothing floods local markets in Uganda and other East African countries? While colonial powers were in decision-making positions for centuries, Ugandan brands, such as Buzigahill, Gwavah, or Catherine & Sons, reinterpret the synthetical waste of the West — a product of its capitalist over-consumption — in their designs. DECLAN GIBBON argues how designers in Uganda are renouncing the calamitous destiny of forgotten garments.

Interviewing the who's who of fashion is not for the faint of heart. Brenda Weischer aka @brendahashtag, takes on the challenge in her new column "Brenda's Business" in her first interview with the enigmatic fashion designer Peter Do.

From 032c Magazine Issue #41: GOI MENASE and model ADIDAS x GUCCI for photographer SZILVESZTER MAKÓ in a shoot styled by RAS BARTRAM.

032c announces the opening of 032c WORKSHOP, the brand’s first stand-alone retail venue. The storefront will present 032c Readytowear as well as projects an exhibitions, opening with an installation by Sterling Ruby featuring a special capsule collection from the artist's couture label, S.R. STUDIO. LA. CA.