Helmed by designer Margot Charbonnier, Berlin-based clothing label Sample-cm, founded in 2015, create bespoke apparel and accessories exploring diverse sports each season, embracing a decidedly slow fashion positioning. For their latest collection, GB2021-CLUB, Sample-cm brings together the worlds of boxing and luxury fashion, exploring the realm of martial arts as a means to break through…
Back in 2018, Jason Seife’s solo exhibition Nucleus took place at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates. Since then, the artist has been building towards A Small Spark vs a Great Forest, presented by Unit London this year. After undertaking a personal and artistic journey through Iran, Syria and Turkey, Seife’s latest…
London native Iggy London’s striking films explore nuanced and powerful stories from the perspectives of protagonists whose lives have often been overlooked by mainstream cinema. From his 2016 short, Black Boys Don’t Cry, to his most recent film Rite of Passage, the director’s work earnestly broaches complex subjects from navigating multifaceted familial relationships to the…
Helmed by multidisciplinary artist DeVonn Francis, NYC based creative studio Yardy began life in 2017 with a series of pop-up meals exploring Caribbean-influenced food and its relationship to identity. For Francis, a queer, first-generation Jamaican-American, Yardy was a way of delving into his own Caribbean heritage, while building safe and convivial spaces for others to…
Reassessing staid notions of masculinity in her work, Royal College of Art alumnus Bianca Saunders has swiftly established herself as a key voice in the bustling menswear space. Showing during London Fashion Week, and with support from the BFC’s NEWGEN programme, Saunders eloquently proposes intelligent and disruptive twists on familiar garments. Drawing on touchstones from…
London-based artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings’ first solo institutional exhibition In My Room, installed at MOSTYN and running until 18 April 2021, brings together diverse mediums from film, fresco painting and works on paper. As a new body of work, In My Room develops the artists’ inquiry into the politics, histories and aesthetics of…
Endeavouring to function as a vehicle for social change, NYC-based fashion label Collina Strada operates as a platform for numerous issues from the fight for equality to global warming, while championing and celebrating the diverse community attracted to this off-kilter brand. Through various initiatives from fundraising and selling charitable collections, to collaborating with The OR…
Open now and running until 12 December 2020, Simon Lee Gallery, New York hosts Pedestrian Profanities, a group exhibition of interdisciplinary artists, designers and polymaths curated by Eric N. Mack, which explores the relationship between fine art, design and fashion, and the ways in which they are activated by a participating body. On the selection…