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In the Winter Issue of 032c we publish a 26-page dossier dedicated to the American writer JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987), and ask the question, why is there no museum honoring his legacy? An exile in Europe and a mournful prophet whose writings on race, class, and human suffering are more relevant than ever, Baldwin is also the subject of a new group show at David Zwirner in New York, curated by Hilton Als. Our issue assembles the images and objects that might occupy a museum worthy of his words, and his life. BUY or SUBSCRIBE to find out more.
Photo: Dan Budnik
QUARTIERS NORD: Lounseny Soumah’s Greetings from Marseille
Milano Cosmic Workshop Lookbook (Unofficial) 🚀🎧🥂🍑
No stranger to having his photograph taken, or indeed to taking his own photograph, 032c fashion director Marc Goehring has been hard at work documenting every moment of this month’s men’s fashion weeks in Milan and Paris. See some of his many full-032c moments in Milan in an unofficial lookbook for the Cosmic Workshop collection, available from tomorrow at our pre-sale showroom at Silencio in Paris.
Photos: Ivan Marianelli, Phil Oh, Jimin Jeon, Jonathan Daniel Pryce.
ISAMAYA FFRENCH’S JUNGIAN SYMBOLISM 💀🍄🐀🦋:
“I’m doing this project with this guy who makes grills. Teeth, for example, are so symbolic. You dream about them falling out. And they’re the last thing that dissolves after you die and you’re a skeleton. For pregnant women, all the calcium goes to the baby, apart from [what goes to] the teeth. These are all just really loaded symbols, so layering this thinking will produce a really interesting effect subconsciously . . . But I say this, and then I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I’m literally doing an eyeliner.’”
Read more from RAVEN SMITH’s interview with beauty artist and “patron saint of un-wellness” ISAMAYA FFRENCH in the 032c Winter Issue: BUY NOW or SUBSCRIBE.
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“As always with the few things I have done for public spaces, I question my motives. I think, ‘It’s vanity!’ Then I think, ‘All the men do it: Richter did it, Polke did it, then I should be able to do it.'”
Artist MARLENE DUMAS on saying “yes,” from an interview with VIRGIL ABLOH and HANS ULRICH OBRIST in the Winter Issue of 032c
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ARTHUR JAFA INDEX: A Series of Utterly Improbable Statistics
“There has to be a brand name,
there have to be associations,
there have to be other t-shirts that pre-exist it. It can’t just be a t-shirt. It’s the story.” 👕💰💎
Sociologists LUC BOLTANSKI and ARNAUD ESQUERRE explain the new system of wealth fueled by our sneakers, handbags, and museums in the 032c Winter Issue AVAILABLE NOW 📈
KESHA LEE’s Trap Resume
“LIKE A QUEER INSURGENT”: Slava Mogutin’s XXX Files
The Art of “Blanding,” or, Why So Many Brands on Instagram Look The Same: “If you are a living, breathing, social media-using human being, you’ve probably seen these products pop up in your Instagram feed. They’re a marketing paradox: a simultaneous undersell and oversell. They offer minimal products with a minimal logos that somehow still speak clearly about their superiority . . . Here’s the twist. Each of these brands, from Casper to Birchbox, was designed by the same company–the New York-based studio Red Antler.” READ MORE @ Fast Company 📲📲📲
