POP 742 Wednesday 2 November 2011
Today's POP is Eunice. Going for the African vibe.
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Artist Daniel Silver gives his fashion debut in a collaboration with our favourite Swedish brand Acne. Celebrating Silver’s affinity to Africa via his own cultural background, the artist has created a 60-piece homage to his part South African, part Zimbabwean heritage.
With a brand that epitomises cool, Acne’s newest collaboration with Daniel Silver is slated to get the shops bumping.
Pop sat down with Daniel Silver to get his take on the collaboration and the perspective of art in fashion.
How did the collaboration with Acne come about?
I met Thomas Person, editor-in-chief of Acne Paper, in 2008 and we became close friends.
He asked to use my studio for one of his shoots and that’s how Jonny Johannson got introduced to my work. Jonny invited me to come to Stockholm for a few days to hang out, without anything specific in mind, and that's when the collaboration initiated. We started discussing ideas about making and the similarities or differences of our artistic work process.
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What do you feel is the most important element an artist, or specifically a sculptor such as yourself, can bring to a fashion collection?
As with any meeting of minds, there is an exchange of ideas, some things that morph from a conversation to a translation or interpretation of the worlds into material things. I loved to see how Acne interpreted my sculptures and the fabric patterns I made for them into clothes.
How did your work process for this collection differ from that of your art?
It wasn’t different in my approach, I work very ‘hands-on’ with anything I do; Layering, cutting, carving, adding, gluing, not knowing what the end result will eventually be. With Acne, I had a lot less time to realise the project. In this sense, it’s very different from art making.
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What inspired the line?
This line was inspired by fabrics that were sent to me from the team in Stockholm and fabrics that I collected from around my studio in Hackney – African super-wax fabrics and tweed fabrics that I also found in Ridley Road market in Dalston.
The prints particularly stand out, how involved were you in the fabric selecting- process?
I made four fabrics from scratch for the collection. Out of them, two went into production. I was extremely impressed with the bead-work that was carried out from one of the fabrics I made – amazing!
Photographer
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Fashion Tui Lin
Hair/Make-up Gemma Wheatcroft using Bumble & Bumble and By Terry
Model Sophie Yall at IMG
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