Streetart und Streetwear.
Unsere Buddies von Djinn's hauen wieder eine tolle Kollabo raus. In der Vergangenheit gab es ja schon die ein oder andere Zusammenarbeit mit Künstlern wie Olson Hekmati oder OJEY – jetzt ist KID ACNE, Illustrator, Künstler und Drucker aus dem UK an der Reihe. Er hat sich auf einem T-Shirt, einer 5-Panel und einer 6-Panel Cap, einem Skateboard Deck und natürlich einem Paar "Nice" Sneaker ausgetobt und seine "animalischen" Illustrationen perfekt für den urbanen Dschungel umgesetzt. Mehr zu seiner Arbeit für Djinn's findet ihr in seinen eigenen Worten unter den Fotos am Ende des Artikels.
Wir finden die Kollektion äußerst gelungen, da sie zeitlos in schwarz-weiß gehalten ist und daher ziemlich stylisch rüberkommt. Was haltet ihr von den Teilen?
Zu haben sind die guten Stücke ab sofort im DJINN'S Onlineshop und zwar genau hier.
Jetzt aber ein paar tolle Produktfotos, geschossen von Shoetown50.
Words from the artist himself:
"For the past 10 years or more, my artwork has largely revolved around a series of enigmatic female warriors, known as Stabby Women. My original intention was to present an alternative to the existing pop-culture references I saw in Street Art and Graffiti and create my own world of characters as oppose to sampling from existing cartoons and comics. Initially, I painted these characters on abandoned buildings as if they were ghosts, coming back to haunt or protect forgotten places. Over time, this evolved into my illustration work and as I became more interested in Fantasy Art, world mythology and alternate history, I began building ideas for their belief system, architecture, rituals and so on. Over the years I have wheat-pasted hundreds of Stabby Women in cities across the world. For me, they still present an alternative, hiding in doorways and on boarded up shops amongst the hustle and bustle.
Many of the Stabby Women wear animal inspired costumes and headdresses, I imagine them as a shaman or theanthropos from an unknown matriarch society.
For my collaboration with Djinn's I have taken repeated elements from the Stabby Women's costumes, such as fur, feathers, scales and hair to create patterns and textures, which I thought would work successfully for the products. I've really enjoyed the collaboration, especially as we've stripped everything back to raw, black and white line work. I think it's a strong look."
"For the past 10 years or more, my artwork has largely revolved around a series of enigmatic female warriors, known as Stabby Women. My original intention was to present an alternative to the existing pop-culture references I saw in Street Art and Graffiti and create my own world of characters as oppose to sampling from existing cartoons and comics. Initially, I painted these characters on abandoned buildings as if they were ghosts, coming back to haunt or protect forgotten places. Over time, this evolved into my illustration work and as I became more interested in Fantasy Art, world mythology and alternate history, I began building ideas for their belief system, architecture, rituals and so on. Over the years I have wheat-pasted hundreds of Stabby Women in cities across the world. For me, they still present an alternative, hiding in doorways and on boarded up shops amongst the hustle and bustle.
