JOAN SMALLS

January 6, 2014

emerald chiffon cape LYNN BAn, necklace CHANEL

dress BOTTEGA VENETA, earrings BALENCIAGA, shoes CÉLINE

python top JEAN PAUL GAULTHIER, shoes CÉLINE

jumpsuit, gloves, and earrings BALENCIAGA

orange long sleeved woven top PROENZA SCHOULER

sheer shirt with embroidery KTZ, zebra gloves and panties PALACE COSTUME

feathered dress VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, earrings ADAM SELMAN

Photography SEAN AND SENG – Fashion MEL OTTENBERG –
Model JOAN [email protected]

LONDON SHOOT (images 1-10)

Hair MARC [email protected]; Make Up PETROS [email protected]; Manicurist ADAM [email protected] for RIMMEL LONDON; Set Design ROBERT STOREY; Assistant GEORGE LEWIN; Photo Assistants JAVIER VILLEGAS, SIMON BREMNER; Fashion Assistants JULIA GALL, KELLY ANN HUGHES; Digital Operator OLIVIA [email protected] YELLOW JACKET; Studio SPRING STUDIOS; Production DAN WORTHINGTON for ROSCO PRODUCTION; Retouching OUTPUT

NEW YORK SHOOT (images 11-15)

Hair FRANCO GOBBI for G [email protected] NEW YORK; Make Up VIRGINIA [email protected] using CHANEL; Manicurist DAWN [email protected] ARTISTS using CHANEL; Set Design MATT [email protected] MACKINNEY; Photo Assistant JAMES GILES; Fashion Assistants JULIA GALL, KELLY ANN HUGHES; Digital Capture MILK DIGITAL; Production MATTHEW [email protected]; Retouching OUTPUT

Photography SEAN + SENG, Fashion MEL OTTENBERG

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– French sociologists LUC BOLTANSKI and ARNAUD ESQUERRE, featured in 032c Issue #35, in an interview with Pablo Larios for the September “food” themed issue of FRIEZE

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The Metaphysics of SUPREME: Decoding Branded Objects with Philosopher Graham Harman

What happens when a Supreme logo is stuck to an axe? Is the object still an axe, or is it something else? LA-based industrial designer and author Jonathan Olivares sat down with philosopher Graham Harman to find out whether his object-oriented ontology can help explain what a branded object actually is.

August 13, 2019

Deeper

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– French sociologists LUC BOLTANSKI and ARNAUD ESQUERRE, featured in 032c Issue #35, in an interview with Pablo Larios for the September “food” themed issue of FRIEZE

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FURTHER READING! Boltanski and Esquerre speak to Victoria Camblin in RICH THINGS: How Tourism, Sneakers, and Museums Make the Economy of Enrichment!

Supermodel and 032c Issue #34 cover heroine MARIACARLA BOSCONO stars in “I do it exceptionally well, I do it so it feels like hell,” shot by THOMAS LOHR.

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“There was something odd about [the Aufstehen party’s] would-be grassroots mobilization. Social movements are not typically planned from above with a readymade hashtag, logo, and a date marked on the calendar.”

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Read more on POP-UP POPULISM: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany in DISSENT.

“I mostly just like to hang out and eat Taco Bell on the houseboat I have in Key Largo.”

We couldn’t help but notice – thanks, Instagram – that a lot of you are still bumming around the beach. Here’s our interview with artist and filmmaker Harmony Korine (sort of) on the topic.

Model, actor, singer, designer, and 032c Issue #35 cover heroine KIKO MIZUHARA is a sensual transhumanist inside a skeletronic robot for an editorial shot in Tokyo by THOMAS LOHR.

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BE WATER – What to bring to the Hong Kong protests:

⛱ Umbrella ✅

🏂Surf board ✅

🔦Lazer pointer ✅

👚Spare T shirt ✅

See more in the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.

“The curious thing about Woodstock was that everyone who went there thought it was their own idea. They appeared there, and nobody knew that there were that many people coming.” – KEVIN KELLY 🍄

“I would never loosely use the word love, but I’m very happy saying it this way: we should allow love some space. Obviously, that’s what Woodstock was about.” – OLAFUR ELIASSON 🌻

Maus creator ART SPIEGELMAN on comic books:

THE POWER OF THREE: THOMAS LOHR’S TECHNOSEXUAL FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY

“Violent games don’t appear to predict anything useful about violent thoughts or acts—not physical aggression, social aggression, or even cyberbullying.” So why are games still blamed for massacres like El Paso? Game designer and theorist IAN BOGOST in The Atlantic:

“Video-Game Violence Is Now a Partisan Issue.”

In THE CUT:

👾 GAMIFYING RESISTANCE 👾

In the mobile game GIGCO: Escape the Gig Economy! you play an Amazon worker, delivering boxes between two points in a warehouse with the tap of a finger on a phone screen.

“We don’t believe the system is broken, so we don’t want it fixed. We want it abolished.”

Issue #36 – Summer 2019: WORKING OUT LOUD

ADIDAS CLIMBING WALLS x NIKE ACTIVISM x KFC POTHOLES x PEPSI ASTEROIDS 👟☄️

BAD FOR THE BRAND? 20 YEARS AFTER THE PROPHETIC NO LOGO, NAOMI KLEIN ON THE TOTAL BRANDING OF OUR LIVES IN THE GUARDIAN.