“I have focused on the blissful potential of reality with a lot of the work that I do,” he says, “exposing the beauty and getting people to try to step into the sublime, or the surreal, or the magical.” Ini Archibong via Surface Magazine.
Ines De Peuter investigates the relationship between the self and its context by creating garments that adapt to the concrete jungle.
Moving together with the fast pace of the city and being constantly on the go, personal space becomes scarce.
‘Bodybuildings’ is a movie forecast that inspires streetwear to soften the hardness of the city.
The garments filter the stimuli of the city by using big volumes that increase the border between the body and its environment. Hoods wrap themselves around the head to isolate the noise, while a surface of grids is adopting the language of the cityscape, forming a guard to block the cities aggression.
“Have you ever browsed some internet forums and heard some teeny kids from the west how Slavs have no culture? Well after this amazing photo shoot their mouths will be closed for good, Slavic fusion in a series ‘Pagan Poetry’ made by Polish photographer Macin Nagraba and all costumes made by Agnieszka Osipa. The model is the photographer’s mother and by all means having a ‘babushka’ in this photo shoot just gives even more Slavic feel to it”.