WE SALUTE VIRGIL ABLOH, newly appointed artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear! Read our feature on Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh from 032c Issue 32 here: https://032c.com/virgil-abloh-duchamp

What do Boris Yeltsin's post-Soviet Presidential Center and a raging teenage free-rock band have in common? The answer: GOSHA RUBCHINSKIY. Read the interview with the designer and see exclusive backstage photo coverage of Gosha Rubchinskiy AW-18 here: https://032c.com/gosha-rubchinskiy-interview-aw18-collection

COZY UP with the new 032c Fleece Jacket from the "WHAT WE BELIEVE" Collection ✊ available in milk or cement green: https://store.032c.com/collections/apparel/wwb-collection

We bid farewell to KRIS VAN ASSCHE, who resigned from his role as Artistic Director of DIOR HOMME today. Read our feature from 032c Issue 33 on the designer's decade-long reign at Dior Homme: https://032c.com/celebrating-kris-van-assche-dior-homme/

OUT NOW on https://store.032c.com: "1997" Martin Margiela and NeXT Computer Bootleg Shirts Created in tribute to MARTIN MARGIELA and STEVE JOBS, our "1997" bootlegs document two parallel moments in which acts of radical defiance led to paradigm-changing creative shifts. For his Spring-Summer 1997 collection, MARTIN MARGIELA presented a series of Stockman vests in various unfinished states. The collection brought the concept of deconstruction to its degree zero, an approach to design that has been copied endlessly yet never quite rendered this radically. In a bombshell announcement later that year, Margiela was appointed to helm ready-to-wear at Hermès, where he would go about planting this very same notion of deconstruction into the machinery of commercial luxury: https://store.032c.com/products/032c-1997-bootleg-longsleeve “Apple doesn’t own me…I own me,” STEVE JOBS told Newsweek after resigning from Apple in 1985. Jobs and a small band of Apple employees would promptly found NeXT, and set out to prove Jobs’s theory that “six people in blue jeans” could create better computing products than a multi-billion dollar company. Six years later, in 1997, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at CERN on a NeXT Computer. Another six years later, in 1997, Apple finally bought NeXT, in particular for OpenStep, which would become the foundation for OS X and the iPhone’s iOS operating system: https://store.032c.com/products/032c-1997-bootleg-nextshirt

FRANK OCEAN: THE ARTIST IS ABSENT The epic feature on 032c coverstar FRANK OCEAN from the current Winter Issue is ONLINE NOW: https://032c.com/frank-ocean-the-artist-is-absent/

FYI, THERE IS NO KENDRICK LAMAR "DAMN" POP-UP SHOP TODAY AT THE 032c WORKSHOP!

CASHMERE GLOBALISM: Revisiting Emporio Armani Magazine 30 Years Later "Back-issues of Emporio Armani Magazine break open the shell of la dolce vita, which comes to us in glimpses like the palms of a mirage. In this world, the sky is either stormy and colored like a fresh bruise, or pleasantly tinted like the glass of an ice cold Negroni:" https://032c.com/cashmere-globalism-emporio-armani-magazine/

032c is pleased to announce the appointment of MARC GOEHRING as the magazine’s new fashion director! Goehring’s aesthetic blends luxury fashion with the attitudes and values of the social media age, a vision that has proven itself in his editorials for 032c. Goehring has been fashion editor of 032c since 2015 and is now taking on the role previously held by stylist Mel Ottenberg, who will continue on at 032c as its fashion editor-at-large. "032c has seen tremendous growth, and we realized that this needs to be reflected in our structure,“ said 032c editor-in-chief Joerg Koch. "Mel will continue to focus on the big stories he is known for, and with Marc as the new fashion director, I am very happy to have a versatile fashion collaborator across all channels.“

032c WHAT WE BELIEVE COLLECTION: FIRST DROP https://store.032c.com/collections/apparel/wwb-collection "We must learn to move without fear, to be aware of everything around us, to feel as well as mentally see our way into the future." - John A. Rice, Founder of Black Mountain College Founded in 1933, Black Mountain College was political sanctuary and artistic incubator at once. Here, in the hills of North Carolina, Josef Albers taught photography on the campus’ cabbage patch and a "soubresaut" performed by Merce Cunningham demonstrated not just grace in movement but the clarity of physics as well. This was method, not content. Inspired by Black Mountain College, the 032c WHAT WE BELIEVE COLLECTION is a sartorial companion in navigating the wax and wane of a multi-disciplinary lifestyle. The first release of the collection features a writer’s belt, a safety pin, a brooch, a key holder, and 032c “Logo Max” socks in four colorways. AVAILABLE HERE: https://store.032c.com/collections/apparel/wwb-collection

Last Friday, we celebrated our annual GUCCI x 032c Party with DJ sets by Clara 3000, Lawrence Lee, and Brat Star at “Bar Tausend,” a tunnel-shaped club tucked away under the railway tracks of the Berlin-Friedrichstraße train station. https://032c.com/gucci-x-032c-at-bar-1000

WE SALUTE JUDY BLAME, Rest in Paradise. Jeweller, and stylist before “stylist” became a job title, Judy Blame was interviewed in 032c Issue #6: When Attitude Becomes Form, published in Winter 2003/4. The interview is online here: https://032c.com/judy-blame-jeweller-artist-fashion-interview Born in 1960, he was at the center of the British underground since the days of safety pins and Malcolm McLaren stalking the streets. He collaborated with interlocutors spanning from Rei Kawakubo at Comme des Garçons to Kim Jones at Louis Vuitton. Jammed with keys, buttons, safety pins, and sepia photos, his work arrives to us as a message from Punk’ s baroque period, entwining tropes of youth subculture and found objects into fashion shoots, collages, and accessories.