Time Shares: 032c Debuts Cottweiler’s Bronzed Up S/S 15 Campaign
Following last week’s A/W 2015 presentation at London Fashion Week, British design team COTTWEILER have released their campaign for the upcoming S/S 15 collection. Entitled Time Shares, the collection consists of 21 looks with a range of materials including tailored rubber, moquito net, and lightweight microfiber. The campaign makes its debut here with a poolside view, and is an extenuation of the Floridian tones evoked by the duo’s presentation last June.
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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!
photos: Ruth Ossai
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In late 2019, 032c magazine published BLACK HOLE CATALOG. At the time, an estimated four million people, many of them children and students, had participated in climate strikes unifying more than 150 countries worldwide against environmental destruction. This movement coalesced around an emotional vocabulary of fear. “Our house is on fire, and I want you to panic,” 16-year-old climate strike figurehead Greta Thunberg told the 2019 World Economic Forum. Responding to this crisis psychology, the introduction to BLACK HOLE CATALOG posited: “We can scream ‘fire!’ and call for help, but we can’t evacuate when the burning house is planet Earth. We’re stuck inside, even when we’re out striking.”
In the first quarter of 2020, the metaphor turned literal – amid COVID-19, to be politically and socially engaged was to #StayHome. Then, following the murder of George Floyd in May, we were called to go outside again – masked and gloved – to join protests on every continent against the old and most deadly pandemic of systemic racism. What the BLACK WHOLE CATALOG posits is ever clearer: familiar infrastructure and design, established jurisdiction and modes of consumption, do not provide solutions to what contaminates our inner selves or the architecture of our surroundings. Traditional images don’t adequately represent this world, the usual blueprints and drawings can’t outline it, and accepted aesthetic convention won’t enhance it.
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