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July 20th, 2017

THE 032c SMOKER’S COLLECTION

Ideas pass through our bodies much like cigarette smoke. As we inhale the fumes of our context, we exhale and are left with a faint buzz of the unknown. The 032c Smoker’s Collection is a series of products dedicated to our secret source of inspiration: the cigarette. While the habit has been pushed into the shadows by new-age prudence, we believe that smoking is much more than an unhealthy …

July 18th, 2017

Mind-Body Multitasking with Skincare Entrepreneur NATALIE FRANZ

With 032c in hand, makeup artist and founder of Magicstripes Natalie Franz does a mind-body multitask. After touring the world and doing makeup for stars such as Lady Gaga, Jennifer Connelly, and R.E.M., Franz is now a skincare entrepreneur, joining an industry that melds multibillion-dollar revenues with age-old occult secrets.

July 17th, 2017

What Karl Marx Taught KENNY SCHACHTER About the Art World and Classic Cars

For the past two decades, the controversial art world fixture Kenny Schachter has amassed an impressive collection of 13 classic cars, featuring a Porsche RSR Prototype, a 124 Abarth Spider, and two concept cars by Zaha Hadid, among others. Sitting amongst the collection — bathing in the smell of petrol and leather varnish — he spoke about anarchy in the art world.

July 14th, 2017

STÜSSY x 032c PANTHER LONGSLEEVE Worldwide Release

On the occasion of today's July 14th release of the Stüssy x 032c Panther Longsleeve, photographer and director Jonas Lindstroem and 032c's fashion editor Marc Goehring paid a visit to Karl Friedrich Schinkel's panther statue in front of the Schauspielhaus in Berlin. See the story here and find out about our stockists.

July 11th, 2017

Mies van der Rohe’s Collages and Minimalism’s Penchant for Chaos

Assembled into a book for the first time, Mies van der Rohe’s collages and montages elude to a penchant for conflict. The essays in the book chew over the grandfather of the International Style’s copy-paste jobs, revealing the architect to be more of a content manager than the cold, platonic formalist that he has become in the popular imagination. In some of the collages, Van der Rohe’s …

July 7th, 2017

Image Research: CAV EMPT & NICK KNIGHT’s “Untitled Project”

The conversation that led to ‘Untitled Project’ began two years ago between MACHINE-A’s director Stavros Karelis, SHOWstudio’s Nick Knight, director Rei Nadal, and the always-illusive design duo Cav Empt (Toby Feltwell & Sk8thing). The collaboration was not bound by a specific timeframe or deadline, and began with a candid back-and-forth between the quartet on the topic of youth. The final …

July 6th, 2017

CARBON FIBER SUNSET: 032c at the America’s Cup in Bermuda

For the 2017 Louis Vuitton America’s Cup, we traveled to the subtropical island of Bermuda to explore the universe of boat racing, a century’s old sport that has evolved into a high-octane spectacle that collides polo-shirted nostalgia with advanced technology and global economics.

July 4th, 2017

L’ART DE L’AUTOMOBILE and THE BROKEN ARM’s T-Shirt Commemorates Car Burnings in the French Suburbs

Every New Year’s Eve in France, the suburbs light up into a sea of burning cars – an arsonist tradition led by the country’s disenchfranchised youth. In commemoration of this ritual, L’art de l’automobile’s Arthur Karakoumouchian and The Broken Arm collaborated on a t-shirt titled “Saint-Sylvestre.” Released today at the Parisian store, the shirt is a limited edition within the full …

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Viva Nigeria: GRACE WALES BONNER’s Bejeweled Visions of Menswear

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November 14th, 2014

Viva Nigeria: GRACE WALES BONNER’s Bejeweled Visions of Menswear

GRACE WALES BONNER is a young British menswear designer and recent graduate of London's Central Saint Martins: a thoroughly-researched blend of 70s Nigerian flair and western decadence, her designs eschew the gender binary and create a new vision for a fluid present while alluding to the past.

Issue #19 — Summer 2010William T. Vollmann

July 10th, 2010

From Rags to Rags: RICK OWENS

Carson Chan interviews RICK OWENS at his home, studio and gym – and discovers how the American in Paris has managed to create a "total aesthetic."

Issue #16 — Winter 2008/2009Post-America

December 1st, 2008

Who Is STEVEN MEISEL?

Fashion’s ultimate enigma has had Vogue Italia's cover under his spell for the past twenty years, nonstop. Considered the world’s greatest fashion photographer, a rare interview gets us just that much closer to finding out: Who is STEVEN MEISEL?

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An Interview with Stanley Kubrick’s Producer and In-House German JAN HARLAN

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February 23rd, 2015

An Interview with Stanley Kubrick’s Producer and In-House German JAN HARLAN

For more than thirty years, JAN HARLAN worked alongside Stanley Kubrick as the director’s researcher, confidant, and producer. Introduced to Kubrick in 1968 through his sister Christiane, Kubrick’s wife, Harlan began work as Kubrick’s resident German-speaker and travel companion, accompanying the director to Romania to assist in the pre-production of the never-realized epic …

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March 12th, 2015

THE CURE FOR A BAD PARTY – Author Chloé Griffin on Underground Icon Cookie Mueller

COOKIE MUELLER was an actress, writer, art critic, alchemist, and muse to Nan Goldin, to name a few of her professions. In one of her first on-screen roles, in John Waters’ 1972 film Pink Flamingos, she notoriously crushed a live chicken on screen during a sex scene. Mueller would continue to work as one of Waters’…

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March 28th, 2014

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s DUNE is the Most Influential Movie Never Made

JODOROWSKY'S DUNE is a new documentary that explores how all of modern Hollywood sci-fi leads back to Alejandro Jodorowsky's unrealized adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel . 032c spoke with director Frank Pavich about the project.

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Online and Unmoored: In Search of PRINCESS NOKIA

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November 11th, 2014

Online and Unmoored: In Search of PRINCESS NOKIA

How does one cut through the fog, particularly as an artist who’s built an aesthetic by sourcing from the past? Princess Nokia is unfazed, though. The pervasiveness of tech nostalgia propels her forward and stokes her imagination. Princess Nokia premieres her video for "Nokia" along with a profile by Matthew Grumbach.

Issue #23 — Winter 2012/2013Countryside

March 1st, 2013

Neue Welt: Elysium

A Conversation between WOLFGANG TILLMANS and NEIL TENNANT.

Issue #27 — Winter 2014/2015Raf Simons

March 11th, 2015

UbuWeb’s KENNETH GOLDSMITH Takes Us into his Personal Library of Babel

A 21st Century Borges, poet and and digital pioneer KENNETH GOLDSMITH takes us through his analogue archives.

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Seeing Secrecy: TREVOR PAGLEN Makes Art out of Military Intelligence

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June 30th, 2014

Seeing Secrecy: TREVOR PAGLEN Makes Art out of Military Intelligence

Trevor Paglen is considered the Edward Snowden of the art world: He is watching the people who are watching us.

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June 14th, 2015

“Blind, Self Righteous and Provincial”: PANKAJ MISHRA’s Critique of the West

Less than four years after the withdrawal of ground troops from its soil, coalition air strikes once again darken the sky of Iraq in an effort to contain the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). As the self-proclaimed caliphate floods international headlines with reports of ethnic cleansing and brutal executions, it is difficult to know…

Issue #25 — Winter 2013/2014Picasso

May 8th, 2014

MICHEL SERRES

MICHEL SERRES is a French philosopher who specializes in the history of science and whose work attempts to reclaim the art of thinking the unthinkable. Born in 1930 in Lot-et-Garonne, Serres is a member immortel of L’Académie française and has been a professor at Stanford University, in the heart of Silicon Valley, since 1984. He’s authored more than 60 volumes that range in topics from …

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