For Spring 2017, Études has invited artist Colin Snapp to conceptualize and produce a short film to announce the arrival of their latest collection.
The brand’s tenth collection bases itself around the desire to retreat into the undefined landscape, allowing time for exploration, and discovering the place where the urban and rural coexist peacefully: where the sidewalk meets the grass.
Similar parallels can be observed in Snapp’s work. Often addressing the notion of tourism and the documentation of traveling as act, Colin manipulates the viewer’s perspective through a thoughtful conceptual process. Using glass lens filters and a practice known as re-photography, Snapp (who has previously collaborated on two publications with Études Books) creates a series of dualistic imagery that is both simultaneously static and in motion.
In his evocative short film, shot on location in Los Angeles and featuring an original soundtrack by Jean Benoît Dunckel (member of the French duo Air) the artist creates a half-waking world of uncertainties and sharp contrasts. Snapp’s piece serves to echo the Spring collection’s central ethos of exploration and the notion of defining a “new geography.”
Naruto Shippuden x Bershka is what all fans of the saga were waiting to have in their closet. The most famous anime series of all time has been the protagonist of the brand’s latest collaboration.
The 3-minute video presentation portrays the awkward boy- fooling around, contemplating, and strutting in equal measure, reflecting on his day-to-day grind and inner turmoil.
For Fall/Winter 2021, Per Götesson explores the fragility of masculinity with a focused series of demi-couture pieces that cut together previously existing garments.
Russian brand Alkhanashvili unveiled the lookbook for its Spring/Summer 2021 collection, featuring models Adanya Samuel, Dima Dronov, Ilgamin Nabiev and Kirill Sabirov shot by Egor Shabanov.
Bianca Saunders presents Superimposed, a collection for Fall/Winter 2021 that looks at positive and negative spaces, always pushing forwards the signature cuts and silhouettes of the brand.
After completing a degree in Knitwear Design at Middlesex University during a global pandemic, Miles George Daniel showcases his deconstructed approach to fashion.
For FW21, Carlota Barrera continues the study of gender identities, in order to initiate a dialogue about rigid gender codes and their evolution towards more fluid identities.
Drawing parallels between the subculture of Nineties grunge and the Bloomsbury Group, this season is about a community of revolutionaries, standing for the belief that art can be a conduit for change.
Rich Brian photographed by Hengyi Liang for our most delicious issue
“Food is sex. Food is injustice. Food is insecurity. Food is security. Food is dialogue, it is even a confrontation of ideas. Food is memory”
This issue encompasses an extensive range of subjects from veganism to the time Paris ate its Zoo. Ghetto Gastro, Etienne Russo, along with designers Emily Bode, Masahiro Ino of Doublet, Mats Rombaut, and Priya Ahluwalia all join in on the conversation and share some of their favorite recipes!
