The Soft, Warm Light of the WILLEM DE KOONING Estate
Willem and Elaine de Kooning acquired this property in the woods of East Hampton in 1961. After visiting Jackson Pollock’s eastern Long Island studio in 1948, De Kooning had fallen in love with the area, where the quality of light and proximity to the ocean brought back memories of his childhood in Holland.
raincoat UNIVERSAL LONDON from Contemporary Wardrobe London, hat KENZOraincoat UNIVERSAL LONDON from Contemporary Wardrobe London, top BOTTEGA VENETA, pants CHANELsweatshirt vintage CHAMPION from Melet Mercantile NYC, shorts GIORGIO ARMANIjacket RICK OWENS, skirt RACHEL AUBRUN from Contemporary Wardrobe London, shoes DR. MARTENS
jacket & pants COMME DES GARÇONS, shoes DR. MARTENScoat JIL SANDER, top YVES SAINT LAURENT, jeans vintage KATHARINE HAMNETT LONDON from Contemporary Wardrobe London, shoes DR. MARTENStop Y-3, sweatshirt vintage CHAMPION from Melet Mercantile NYCtop BALENCIAGA, jeans vintage KATHARINE HAMNETT LONDON from Contemporary Wardrobe London
jacket and pants COMME DES GARÇONS, shoes DR. MARTENStop & coat CÉLINE, pants ADIDAS SLVR, shoes DR. MARTENS
Hair DAVID VON [email protected]; make up LISA [email protected] HOWARD; photography assistant WILL ENGELHARDT; light design CHRIS BISAGNI; first assistant SAMUELE MARFIA; second assistant NICHOLAS J BROWN; production FELIX FRITH
Milan experienced the earliest and longest COVID lockdown in Europe. As the country moved into "Phase 3" in mid-June, billboards bereft of advertising (it's the first budget to go in any crisis) began to repopulate around Milan – not with the usual product and event marketing, but with imagery reflecting the collective whiplash experienced of a city thrown first indoors, then outside itself. Italian editor CARLO ANTONELLI explains in a letter from Milan. More
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Mowalola Ogunlesi has been on our minds lately. When we spoke to her in 2018, she was fresh out of Central Saint Martins, where her fashion degree show, “Psychedelic,” had already begun to turn heads in London, and soon after, her designs started to appear on dedicated fan accounts on Instagram, on celebrities including Solange Knowles and Skepta, and eventually on the Fashion Week circuit. Earlier this week, Kim Kardashian West Instagrammed a pic of the Kardashian-West family celebrating Father’s Day in head-to-toe MOWALOLA looks. Days later, Kanye West announced that YEEZY had entered a 10-year partnership with Gap – and that the Yeezy Gap collaboration would be designed by the British-Nigerian designer.
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Read “Found Futures: Introducing the Mowalola Man” HERE!
