Deeper
WHAT I DO IS WHAT I LIKE: An Archival Salute to Stefano Tonchi
🥾The adidas by 032c GSG 9 boot 🥾
“Every curve, element, and fabric has a reason to be there. Take the thick, rounded ridge on the inside upper of each boot. ‘That’s so they can break when rappelling from a helicopter,’ says Nelson Madlangbayan, a former US soldier who now works in adidas’ specialist sports division: ‘a hard edge wouldn’t stay connected to the rope.'” 🚁🚁
READ THE FULL HISTORY OF THE BOOT HERE, AND BUY IT HERE ✊
A holographic installation featuring the new adidas by 032c GSG 9, launched on June 21, 2019, at DOVER STREET MARKET London.
The adidas by 032c GSG 9 is available in limited quantities at DSM, SSENSE.COM, and in our own 032c online shop.
GET YOUR COPY: 032c Issue #36 (Summer 2019)
Online and on newsstands internationally 🍓🍓
AVAILABLE NOW: THE ADIDAS BY 032c GSG 9 BOOT
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THE GSG-9.032c
OLD TOWN FURY ROAD: Lil Nas X, “Daddy Lessons,” and the Black Yeehaw Agenda
🌍🌍 Human exclusion zones, deep fake infrastructures, speculative geoeconomics, artificial geographies: BENJAMIN BRATTON on the NEW MODELS PODCAST 🎧🎧
More Than Human: Exploring AI, Sound, and the Golem In It with Kode9 and Suzanne Livingston
TECHNOFOLK CATHEDRALS: Marcelo Burlon and Edoardo Tresoldi Show Us How to Collaborate in the Infinite Present
Dark harps, stage fright, and Ryuichi Sakamoto: Introducing NICO HUZELLA
Enjoy Sterling Ruby’s show at Pitti? For 032c Issue 36, Eli Russell Linnetz shot a 22 page preview of Ruby’s first ready-to-wear collection in the artist’s L.A. studio.
BUY THE ISSUE HERE TO SEE IT 💀🎨
Teeth, Manure, All That Shit: ISAMAYA FFRENCH’s Anti-Beauty Makeup
READ Making the mundane must-have – Prada and the art of the fashion meme in THE GUARDIAN: “Key to a designer’s success in the social media age is finding that sweet spot between being lightly ridiculed online and adored by the fashion crowd” 🐊🔮
THEN READ Our interview with Four Pins founder Lawrence Schlossman on MEMES AND MENSWEAR: “On a foundational level the DNA of these things is intertwined – we were just early in bringing that to the surface” 🧬🧬
“You know you take your jade egg, roll it in a little acid, and you shove it up your —,” Waldman said, making a swift upward motion with her hand as everyone around the table laughed. “Absorb it through your mucous membranes and it gives you a kind of extraordinary experience.”💊💊💊
– Ayelet Waldman, in a conversation with fellow psychonauts-cum-authors Michael Pollan and T.C. Boyle, on the “GOOP-ification” of hallucinogenic drugs 🦋🦋🦄🦄
READ MORE in “The Highs and Lows of LSD Literature” at The New York Times
BUY 032C ISSUE #36 to read our extended conversation with Pollan on his latest book, How to Change Your Mind 🐣🐣
032c WHAT WE BELIEVE IS IN THE HISTORY BOOKS 📚
On the occasion of Pitti Uomo n.96, taking place in Florence now through June 14, the Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery presents ROMANZO BREVE DI MODA MASCHILE (A SHORT NOVEL ON MEN’S FASHION), an exhibition showcasing thirty years of menswear from 1989 to the present. Curated by OLIVIER SAILLARD and on view in the halls of the Palazzo Pitti Museo della Moda e del Costume, the presentation recounts the history and evolution of menswear in storybook-style vignettes. A look from our first-ever menswear collection, 032c WHAT WE BELIEVE, launched at Pitti Uomo in 2018, is featured alongside work by more than 100 designers who contributed to this narrative of fashion. ⚜️
SEE MORE at Pitti Immagine Uomo
🗓 WHEN ARE WE? 🗓
This week a panel of geologists formally accepted that we have entered a NEW EPOCH of PLANETARY HISTORY: the ANTHROPOCENE 👣 🌍
READ MORE at NATURE.COM 🌱
“We want things to be seen differently”: Camilla and Giulia Venturini’s MEDEA
“The most pressing crisis of all, arguably, is an absence of collective imagination. It is as if humanity has been afflicted by a psychological complex, in which we believe the present world is stronger than our capacity to remake it — as if it were not our ancestors who created what stands before us now. As if the very essence of humanity, if there is such a thing, is not to constantly build new worlds.
If we can move beyond such a failure, we will be able to see something wonderful. The plummeting cost of information and advances in technology are providing the ground for a collective future of freedom and luxury for all.”
– AARON BASTANI markets “Fully Automated Luxury Communism,” subject of his new book released today, in an op-ed for The New York Times.