52 pages, 20cm x 27cm, soft cover with attached external 12-page booklet
ISBN: n/a
AU $18
Composite Journal #2/2015
ffiXXed studios
Published in conjunction with Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, Composite Journal delves into the work and life of a single creative practitioner per issue, teasing out an artist’s practice and its underpinnings from a diverse series of vantages, positions and perspectives.Following the inaugural issue, which traced the oeuvre of celebrated Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers, issue #2 explores the output, history and creative philosophy of collaborative fashion label and art project ffiXXed studios. Based at the foot of Wutong Mountain, outside of Shenzhen, China, the label – which won the International Woolmark Prize Asia in 2014 – is the product of a relationship that is at once personal, creative and propositional. Existing both inside and outside the fashion world, ffiXXed's Australian-raised design duo Fiona Lau and Kain Picken frame their unisex ready-to-wear collections as a context for various investigations into concerns surrounding lifestyle, modes of production, consumption and the limits of the garment as functional object.
The issue features contributions from respected Tokyo-based writer and editor of the highly-regarded TOO MUCH: Magazine of Romantic Geography, Cameron Allan McKean; curator Kim Brockett; writer Nadiah Abdulrahim; photographer Emma Phillips; and Composite’s editorial team, Narelle Brewer, Justine Ellis and art critic and writer Dan Rule; among others.
Edition of 1000
Publication date: July 2015
Published by Perimeter Editions
Melbourne, Australia
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