K1X x Lee x Richie Culver
Wow, these actually look pretty rad! K1X teamed up with denim veterans Lee for a project that leaves the brand's street basketball DNA in favour of a punk aesthetic. Particular project showcases artwork from celebrated British artist Richie Culver, which found its way on a few denim jackets.
“Borders of art, street and denim blur alongside Richie’s art pieces. The exploratory and improvisational approach to making art we find in Richie Culver’s growing oeuvre can be seen as an outcome of the tensions between binary cultural and social opposites — provincial vs. cosmopolitan; cash-strapped vs. affluent; art museum highs vs. street-cultural lows. In what seems an examination of one’s experience and inner self, the material outcome of this attitude to creativity can take any one of a range of forms, from gritty documentary photography (much of it made during a period working in a trailer park) to urban bricolage, from primitively executed drawings and paintings to video. Highly style conscious and yet pragmatic, there is a kind of punk aesthetic at work in Culver’s approach both to art-making and to exhibiting.“
Jackets will be available soon at Selfridges, London... or get your hands on one over here. (Forty)
“Borders of art, street and denim blur alongside Richie’s art pieces. The exploratory and improvisational approach to making art we find in Richie Culver’s growing oeuvre can be seen as an outcome of the tensions between binary cultural and social opposites — provincial vs. cosmopolitan; cash-strapped vs. affluent; art museum highs vs. street-cultural lows. In what seems an examination of one’s experience and inner self, the material outcome of this attitude to creativity can take any one of a range of forms, from gritty documentary photography (much of it made during a period working in a trailer park) to urban bricolage, from primitively executed drawings and paintings to video. Highly style conscious and yet pragmatic, there is a kind of punk aesthetic at work in Culver’s approach both to art-making and to exhibiting.“
Jackets will be available soon at Selfridges, London... or get your hands on one over here. (Forty)