Photographer and artist Coco Capitán, who’s greatest identified for her collaborations with Gucci, has launched her personal shoe and bag capsule assortment with Singaporean shoe model Charles & Keith.
The Spanish-born artist’s works have been exhibited in galleries and museums the world over, together with in Seoul’s Daelim Museum and Paris’s Maison Européenne de la Photographie.
She has collaborated quite a few instances with Gucci’s inventive director Alessandro Michele.
Her hand-written aphorisms featured prominently within the Italian luxurious style home’s Autumn/Winter 2017 assortment, with phrases corresponding to “Frequent sense just isn’t that widespread” or “What are we going to do with all this future” showing on Gucci baggage, brand T-shirts and hoodies.
Her new collaboration with the predominantly Asia-based retailer Charles & Keith comes within the type of black penny loafers embroidered together with her handwritten prose and tiny blue flowers.
Charles & Keith X Coco Capitan penny loafers
(Charles & Keith)
The capsule assortment additionally features a black mini tote bag, which includes a brief story stitched onto one facet of the bag, and the identical blue flowers stitched on the opposite facet.
Script on one facet of the loafers reads: “Loves Me Blue, Love Me Blue Not.”
In the meantime, the script on the bag reads: “The hope that carries a blue flower rising and cracking the concrete, watered with rain in a nook no person steps.”
Capitán mentioned that her artwork “is impressed by overheard conversations, diary entries, and sudden waves of introspection”.
“I imagine that phrases can transcend cultures and provides us a glimmer of hope for brighter instances,” she added.
(Charles & Keith)
She has additionally beforehand shot campaigns for different style giants, together with Paco Rabanne, A.P.C., Mulberry, Miu Miu and Maison Margiela.
In 2020, Capitán held a solo exhibition titled “Naïvy” at London’s Maximillian William Gallery.
Talking to British Vogue on the time forward of her exhibition, the artist opened up about working with Michele through the years.
“Alessandro’s universe has so much to do with mine and I really like his thoughts,” she mentioned.
“We’re two very nostalgic individuals who, via style, romanticise the previous and what might have been, but in addition convey within the prospects of the long run. It’s without delay baroque, however fully new.”
“I can’t communicate for Alessandro, however I discover it troublesome to reside within the current. I’m at all times fascinated about what has been,” she continued.
“Residing within the second could be very on pattern proper now with all this speak of mindfulness, however I’m very removed from that and, whereas I’m not happy with it, I feel this mind-set actually shapes my work.”
Fredie Stevens, design director of Charles & Keith, mentioned that Capitán’s capsule assortment “displays her cool-girl angle”.
“These items, paired together with her poignant prose, are excellent collector’s gadgets for artwork lovers and the fashion-forward crowd.”
Kaynak: briturkish.com
