FOTO-COUTURE PERFORMANCE AND EXHIBITION AT HUIDENCLUB, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, MAY 6TH 2023
FOTO-COUTURE
Charlie Koolhaas’ fabric photographs transfer the streets, surfaces, and textures of global cities onto the body, turning the wearer into a living collage. When worn as clothes, photographs that document a turbulent and unglamorous world become beautiful sensual objects that challenge us to reconsider beauty and use fashion to disturb the social order rather than confirm it. These handmade garments that act as urban camouflage draws on photographs taken from Charlie Koolhaas’s book City Lust, which is an intimate portrait of five diverse cities, the progression of globalization and how it connects us.
BEDSPACER JACKET
On the walls of Satwa, an older section of Dubai, landlords advertise to the South Asian workers who come to construct the desert city. These homemade signs sell 'bedspace' in densely packed apartments.
MIRRORED BUILDING JACKET
A mirrored building in Dubai glimmers in the bright pink haze of a polluted sky.
ALLEY JACKET
In the Urban Villages of Guangzhou China the building literally touch, earning them the name ‘Kissing Buildings’. These dense tumour-like cities within the city are the few parcels of unregulated land in the city.
WASTE JACKET
People live amongst and work to recycle the mountains of waste that the entire world deposits in Lagos, Nigeria.
RAVE JACKET
In a disused leg of London bridge, the green rays of the LED lights are the only illumination in a dark and cavernous illegal rave.
SCORPION JACKET
In one of the ancient markets of Guangzhou, China scorpions cling around the edges of their newspaper-lined bucket, waiting to be sold for food and medicine.
SHOP
FOTO-COUTURE PERFORMANCE AND EXHIBITION AT HUIDENCLUB, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, MAY 6TH 2023
FOTO-COUTURE
Charlie Koolhaas’ fabric photographs transfer the streets, surfaces, and textures of global cities onto the body, turning the wearer into a living collage. When worn as clothes, photographs that document a turbulent and unglamorous world become beautiful sensual objects that challenge us to reconsider beauty and use fashion to disturb the social order rather than confirm it. These handmade garments that act as urban camouflage draws on photographs taken from Charlie Koolhaas’s book City Lust, which is an intimate portrait of five diverse cities, the progression of globalization and how it connects us.
BEDSPACER JACKET
On the walls of Satwa, an older section of Dubai, landlords advertise to the South Asian workers who come to construct the desert city. These homemade signs sell 'bedspace' in densely packed apartments.
MIRRORED BUILDING JACKET
A mirrored building in Dubai glimmers in the bright pink haze of a polluted sky.
ALLEY JACKET
In the Urban Villages of Guangzhou China the building literally touch, earning them the name ‘Kissing Buildings’. These dense tumour-like cities within the city are the few parcels of unregulated land in the city.
WASTE JACKET
People live amongst and work to recycle the mountains of waste that the entire world deposits in Lagos, Nigeria.
RAVE JACKET
In a disused leg of London bridge, the green rays of the LED lights are the only illumination in a dark and cavernous illegal rave.
SCORPION JACKET
In one of the ancient markets of Guangzhou, China scorpions cling around the edges of their newspaper-lined bucket, waiting to be sold for food and medicine.
SHOP
