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 Guangzhou.
ONE SIZE UNISEX
MATERIAL: 100% recycled twill 250g
HEIGHT: 106 cm WIDTH: 74 cm
SLEEVE: 54 cm x 22 cm (straight sleeve)
HANDMADE: These wearable artworks are handmade by specialized tailors in the Netherlands therefore each item might vary slightly.
PRODUCT CODE: CKAW22CL_L02
DETAILS: With belt, with belt loops above pocket / Square lined pockets
SHIPPING AND RETURNS: Personalized items are delivered within 30 days of order confirmation. Return for customized products is not available unless the wrong item has been delivered.
€1,200.00
Charlie Koolhaas’ wearable photographs transfer the streets, surfaces, and textures of global cities onto the body, turning the wearer into a mirrored building in Dubai, an alleyway in Guangzhou, or the epicenter of a London warehouse rave – as if a living collage.
Streetwear in its most literal sense, this series 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. When worn as clothes, photographs that document a turbulent and unglamorous world become beautiful sensual objects – a recycling dump in Lagos, or a bucket of scorpions sold in a market in China, challenge us to reconsider beauty and use fashion to disturb the social order rather than confirm it.
For over twenty years, Charlie Koolhaas’ books and exhibitions have defied photography conventions by merging images and words into unified narratives. Her installations are landscapes you can enter and explore where flat images are folded into three-dimensional structures offering an infinite number of perspectives. Her Artwear further frees her photographs from the boundaries of art institutions allowing them to enter the world where their meaning continues to evolve.
