You can now pre-order Hi-Fructose: New Contemporary Fashion in our store here. The book is an experimental look into the worlds of wearable art and fashion, where technology, sculpture, experimental materials, and other-worldly viewpoints have sparked a distinctly different kind of new contemporary fashion that bends genres and sparks new conversations, presenting atypical fashion through a Hi-Fructose lens. Pre-Order today and get an exclusive 18×24″ poster, available only on our site and for pre-orders. The book is published by Cernunnos, and it’s edited and designed by Hi-Fructose co-founder Attaboy.
Hi-Fructose: New Contemporary Fashion is a 296- page full-color over-sized book (coming in at 14″ in height), featuring essays incorporating interviews with both emerging and legendary designers, plus scores of lush layouts with work by:
MIRCO HEPBURN ARENA, JO COPE, FLAVIA ROSE, ANA RAJCEVIC, VERONIKA RABINOVICH, ELENA SLIVNYAK, BEA SZENFELD, NIKOLINE LIV ANDERSEN, NOA RAVIV, ASYA KOZINA, ENID ALMANZA, ROB ELFORD, SYLWANA ZYBURA, STEVEN VANDERYT, DINU BODICIU, LEONID TITOW, TIEL JANSEN, JILLIAN OLIVER, PETER POPPS, OLGA NORONHA, HENRIK VIBSKOV, NIXI KILLICK, SASHA FROLOVA, KANSAI YAMAMOTO, TANEL VEENRE, AGNIESZKA OSIPA, ANOUK WIPPRECHT, with a special introduction by Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Costume Archivist ALINA CAMPBELL.
See recent work from a few of these artists below.
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Cover: Bea Szenfeld Anderson (From the White Collection). Photo by Joel Rhodin.
Nathan French, a fashion designer-turned-fine artist, crafts captivating and unsettling sculptures crystals, feathers, wax, and other unexpected materials. The artist, who appears in the upcoming Park Park Studios group show "Wasteland,” had previously created wearable art in his previous career. And in fine art, threads from that training endure.
Seiran Tsuno's ghostly dresses rest above the bearer and recontextualize the human body. The Japanese artist’s fluorescent creations are designed using a 3D pen, and in creating this work, Tsuno cites her 75-year-old grandmother has her muse.