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    • 032c is a magazine and apparel brand. Our workshop in Berlin is a production and research center, where we assess and contribute to contemporary culture. Our findings are published digitally and as a collectible manual for freedom, research, and creativity, printed twice annually.

    Founded in Berlin in 2000, 032c Magazine is edited by Joerg Koch and art directed by Mike Meiré. 032c Apparel is creative directed by Maria Koch. Read more at GQ Style: “Inside 032c, the German Magazine That’s Also a Cult Streetwear Brand.”

    The 032c.com platform is designed and engineered by International Magic in collaboration with Uli Schöberl & @032c.

    032c is headquartered in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany.

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    • 032c
    • Editor-in-Chief / Creative Director
      Joerg Koch
    • Art Director
      Mike Meiré
    • Designer
      Tim Giesen
    • Executive Editor
      Victoria Camblin
    • Fashion Director
      Marc Goehring
    • Advertising / Studio Director
      Miriam-Leah Hess
    • Assistant Editor
      Daniel Beatty Garcia
    • Assistant Designer
      Svenja Wittmann
    • 032c Apparel
    • Creative Director 032c Apparel/RTW
      Maria Koch
    • Senior Womenswear Designer
      Felix Hupka
    • Product Manager
      Lisa Hauser
    • E-Commerce Manager
      Eleftheria Orfanidou
    • Sales Director
      Nunguja Kisalya
    • Assistant Womenswear Designer
      Birutė Mažeikaitė
    • Contributing Editors
      Suleman Anaya, Thom Bettridge, Carson Chan, Jina Khayyer, Hans Ulrich Obrist
    • Director Digital Services
      Uli Schöberl
    • Design and Engineering, 032c.com
      International Magic
    • Sales Interns
      Joonwoo Park, Isaiah Kremer, Arnaud Buisson
    • Accountant
      Mecnun Yildirim

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  • “To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all.”

    We salute HAROLD BLOOM, literary critic and champion of the autonomy of the aesthetic.

    Read Mark Kermode on Bloom, from the LRB archive, HERE.

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  • “Outside of pure dress-up games, very few games have explored fashion as part of gameplay. Games like Hitman 2 are a notable exception, where the clothes you choose to wear (or, uh, steal) allow you to stealthily blend in with crowds. Even when games aren’t necessarily built using fashion mechanics, places to discuss fashionable armour sets have cropped up behind them. Places like r/fashionsouls on Reddit have huge communities based on obtaining and creating the most stylish outfits for more traditionally “hardcore” games like Dark Souls. There’s even one going on for Monster Hunter.”

    Victoria Tran on the growing relevance of fashion in gaming in THE GUARDIAN 🎮

  • Teddy Quinlivan in 032c RTW for Oyster Magazine

    032c's first women's Ready-To-Wear collection, designed by Maria Koch, has just hit stores including GR8 Tokyo, Dover Street Market, KM20 Moscow, SSENSE, Boon, Opening Ceremony, Antonioli, and Browns. For the occasion, Oyster Magazine shot model and activist Teddy Quinlivan in the collection – see the photos below.More

  • “Space scientists are abandoning the heavens to help you decide what to wear and watch and listen to. Whether it’s stars or Stitch Fix, it’s all about machine learning.”

    Read about the style-quantifying astrophysicists of Silicon Valley in WIRED>>.

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY FAITH RINGGOLD! 🎉

    “You want rhythm? I’ll show you rhythm. I know about rhythm. I just didn’t know I was supposed to put it in everything I do.”

    Born on October 8, 1930, Faith Ringgold turns 89 years old today. This summer, the artist spoke to 032c executive editor Victoria Camblin about Cubism, sexism, and the suburbs – and what inspired her to paint Die (1967), an American masterpiece depicting a violent race riot. READ THE INTERVIEW.

  • Image: Dilara Findikoglu Spring/Summer 2020

    “Cosplay Culture & Fashion Week Share the Same Sartorial Ethos,” says HIGHSNOBIETY:

    “The clothes and the costumes are just an excuse for both communities to convene. … Fashion may be a more glamorous arena, but what are its devotees if not nerds for apparel?”

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  • “At a deep level, the language of climate denialism is tied up with a form of masculine identity predicated on modern industrial capitalism – specifically, the Promethean idea of the conquest of nature by man, in a world especially made for men. By attacking industrial capitalism, and its ethos of politics as usual, Thunberg is not only attacking the core beliefs and world view of certain sorts of men, but also their sense of masculine self-worth. Male rage is their knee-jerk response.” Read more about MISOGYNY, MALE RAGE, AND THE WORDS MEN USE TO DESCRIBE GRETA THUNBERG in The Conversation.

  • As you might have heard, WeWork’s business model didn’t, well, work. Here’s IAN BOGOST on WeWork’s philosophy: “Co-working fused the individualism of tech bootstrapping with the collectivism of social movements. Offices got sharded into realms as small as one desk—every founder his own sovereign, but all contributing to that great collective: entrepreneurship.” Read more in THE ATLANTIC.

  • Then read about WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s “tech-bro mysticism, grueling hours, and Don Julio tequila” in THE BUSINESS INSIDER, ft. quotes from WeWork’s prospectus: “the energy of we — greater than any of us but inside all of us.” 😬

     

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