Driving With Heels
“The car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event — a liberation of sexual energy.” — J.G. Ballard, “Crash” (1973)
The Billion-Dollar Underdog: A24 and the Business of Cultural Capital
Make It New
What does New Balance's 204L have to do with Modernism?
By Shane Anderson
Obsessions in Osaka: Unsound’s Mat Schulz and Gosia Płysa
The Krakow-based Unsound festival touched down in Osaka for three days of deep bass and experimental music. Shane Anderson spoke to creative directors Mat Schulz and Gosia Płysa about artists eating glass, Japanese precision, and how a festival is like a novel.
By Shane Anderson
Bury Me in Denim: Kelvyn Colt
REPLAY's latest collection, built on heavy denim, raw cotton, and ripstop, blends workwear with street culture. In this interview, German-Nigerian artist Kelvyn Colt—known for his viral freestyles—reflects on the power of individuality and self-expression through both fashion and music.
By Aurélie Weber
Berlin Marathon with Adidas and Brendahashtag
“Once every few years, it hits me that I would like to be a runner.” But Brendahashtag has a motivational problem. With hopes to fix it, she followed Adidas around during the Berlin Marathon.
By BRENDA WEISCHER
Worldbuilding With Daisies
In Dover Street Paris’ B2 project space, Paige Silveria has curated the group show “Daisies,” featuring dance, sound, video, and other mediums. Here, Silveria speaks to Regis, Lucas Dupuy, and Gabrielle Schwan about Balkan music, skating, hardcore ballerinas, and world-building.
By Paige Silveria
GONE GONZO
Gone Gonzo is a cultural road trip through style, power, and perception. Autofiction becomes performance, critique turns into confrontation, and the line between poetry and spectacle collapses.
By Slata
THE TIGER presented by Gucci
I’m sorry, but you do not have enough coins for democracy
When Trump 2.0 began, he invited some of the world's most powerful technocrats into his court of jesters. Many didn't last long but the foundations were set: the US government would try to run the country like a startup, blockchain coins included. Technofeudalism is a term that's been used to describe the current administration, but what does it mean? Our dossier from the Summer 2025 issue looks at the prehistory of technofeudalism, how the US has changed the operating system, and why the tech bros find inspiration for domination in the medieval.
Sara Choi: "When you start drifting, you lose fear of death"
Coinciding with the Y2K revival, drifting and JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) cars have resurfaced in global culture as viral imagery, but for professional drifter Sara Choi, the sport is a lived practice. In a new interview, she speaks about joining the Sunrise Blvd team and developing her own brand, Badseki.
By Cyana-Djoher Hadjali
Constructing Lightness with On
Discover On Labs Berlin - an immersive intersection of tech, art, and performance where the new LightSpray™ innovation meets Boris Acket’s Architecting Lightness installation. Explore ultra-light design, embodied movement, and the poetic science of running.
Gia Coppola: An Alien on Hollywood Boulevard
In her new film installation, Gia Coppola follows "Edie," as she lands on Earth for the first time. Inspired by Ed Ruscha and Hollywood Boulevard, Coppola has shot a whimsical film that delves into Americana and the extraordinary in the ordinary.
The Lamb Must Learn to Run With the Tigers
2hollis: “I am an object — view it, watch it”
In a summer 2025 cover story shot by Brandon Bowen, the experimental pop sensation 2hollis tells Cassidy George about losing his childhood home in the LA fires, the significance of “The Star,” and why it’s becoming increasingly difficult to balance fantasy and reality.
By Cassidy George
In Praise of Shadows: Y-3 Fall/Winter 2025
In In Praise of Shadows (1933), Jun’ichirō Tanizaki describes a world where beauty hides in obscurity—where gloss gives way to grain, and light is most intense at the moment it begins to fade.
Iceage's Elias Rønnenfelt: Kill Your Darlings
In the summer issue, Iceage frontman Elias Rønnenfelt appeared as the musical guest on Casper Sejersen’s imaginary talk show. The spread also features a real interview with Rønnenfelt about poetry, pirate downloads, and his family’s political past.
By Cassidy George
FC Barcelona’s Dani Olmo: A Magician and Mirror for the Future
At the Spanish national soccer team’s first meeting after summer break, offensive midfielder Dani Olmo wore 032c Readytowear to mark the occasion. Olmo spoke to Shane Anderson about his past in Zagreb and Leipzig, his current chess rating, and what his future might look like after he stops playing.
By Shane Anderson
CHI: "I just want everything to be beautiful"
The British-Nigerian musician CHI feels like she’s lived 1000 lives, and the 1001st is all about PREMIUM BEAUTY – her debut album coming later this year. In a new interview, she speaks about her friend Mowalola, mind games, and the art of moving on.
By Cassidy George
Stefan Marx: "It's Yesterday Somewhere Else"
Throughout September 2025, the words “IT’S YESTERDAY SOMEWHERE ELSE” will appear on Lufthansa’s latest First Class loungewear. Taken from the notebooks of artist Stefan Marx, the phrase reads like a riddle — resisting reason and asking instead to be felt.
By Shane Anderson
The Club Culture Paradox: Aaron Altaras, Freddy K and Rave On
Despite its centrality to the city’s identity, Berlin nightlife is rarely tackled head-on in large-scale storytelling. Director Viktor Jakovleski, actor Aaron Altaras, and DJ Freddy K discuss how the film RAVE ON confronts the challenge of bringing the scene to the screen.
By Cassidy George
POST-VEGAN: How Gen Z Made Meat Cool Again
In what Benjamin Schiffer calls the post-vegan era, Gen Z is bringing meat back, not with a “screw the planet” mindset, but with a “stabilize your cortisol” attitude. From wellness trends to Schnitzel at Borchardt, this is how protein has become culturally charged and aesthetically coded.
By Benjamin Schiffer
Bruce Weber Doesn’t Like Clothes
Photographer Bruce Weber revisits his 70s and 80s work in his Cologne solo show "Early Men", reflecting on masculinity, male desire, George Cukor’s influence, and the unexpected fashion moments that shaped his visual language.
By Claire Koron Elat
The Paul Hameline Afterparty Morning Show
The 032c universe is always expanding. In the summer 2025 Issue #47, we delve deeper into entertainment with an imaginary television show dreamt up by photographer and director Casper Sejersen, The Paul Hameline Afterparty Morning Show.
GOLDRAUM 1 by Hendrik Schneider and Tom Schneider
032c Gallery is pleased to present “GOLDRAUM 1,” an exhibition by Hendrik Schneider and Tom Schneider on view from August 2 - September 13, 2025.
Peri Rosenzweig & Nick Royal's HARDSTYLE Is Now a Book
Stylists Peri Rosenzweig and Nick Royal are the creative duo behind some of Lady Gaga and Travis Scott’s most impactful looks. Their debut book is a 200-page manifesto, bound in hard metal.
By Cassidy George
ART AT WAR: BORIS MIKHAILOV and WOLFGANG TILLMANS in Ukraine
Does war strip art of its meaning—or intensify it? In the summer 2025 issue, Shane Anderson explores how WOLFGANG TILLMANS and BORIS MIKHAILOV confront these questions while preparing an exhibition in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
By Shane Anderson
Chanel No 5, Red Moscow, and the Scent of Totalitarianism
“Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes?”
– Karl Schlögel
By Joachim Bessing
Skinny Legend: Ozempic, Body Politics and Unwellness as Aspiration
As injectable weight-loss drugs become ubiquitous, body fat is vanishing en masse—along with the body positivity of the 2010s. In a new essay, Cassidy George unpacks the return of the ultra-thin ideal and the enduring link between beauty and suffering.
By Cassidy George
Lauren Oyler Says No—And Sometimes Yes
Lauren Oyler, author of "Fake Accounts" (2021) and "No Judgment" (2024), speaks on being addicted to deadlines, learning from negative reviews, and things she actually likes.
By Shane Anderson
