THE NEW BEVERLY HILLBILLIES I’ve been following the Instagram posts of LOTTA VOLKOVA and MAUD ESCUDIE over the past two weeks of August 2016. What is documented are the summer vacation exploits of the VETEMENTS/BALENCIAGA inner circle which includes Demna Gvasalia, Lotta Volkova, Maud Escudie, Pierre Ange-Carlotti, and Loik Gomez. My takeaway Steve Oklyn • Mode
[BORE] SERIES NO.1 En 2014, le prodige de l’art Américain Mark Even, âgé alors de 13 ans, a contacté par e-mail l’artiste Suisse Andrea Hasler qui vit et travaille actuellement à Londres. Il a suggéré qu’ils collaborent sur certains travaux. Les œuvres qui en découlent sont intitulées « BORE » Series No. Zoé de Sagan • Art
[TYRANNY] STEVE OKLYN [TODAY’S TYRANNIES ARE PLEASURABLE RATHER THAN COERCIVE] « A HUMAN DESERT WAS ENGINEERED TO MAKE EXISTENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA DESIRABLE. » s/O STEVE OKLYN LSD INFILTRATIONNISTES RAF SIMONS VIRGIL ABLOH DEMNA GVASALIA JAMES JEBBIA CALI THORNHILL DEWITT GRACE WALES BONNER JOERG KOCH PHARRELL WILLIAMS JOE PEREZ DEREK BLASBERG J.W. Steve Oklyn • Mode
[CKRS] DEAD TRANSMISSION Transform the press announcement: Raf Simons Expected to Be Named Calvin Klein’s New Creative Director This Week into a pronouncement regarding the current state of FASHIONWORLD and its death grip on the minds of a majority of the world’s youth: Old ideas repackaged as new ones are as Steve Oklyn • Mode
COMMUNIQUE NO.4 [SIMULATIONS] FASHIONWORLD: A CULTURE WHERE SIMULATED UNIVERSES OUTNUMBER REAL UNIVERSES « FASHIONWORLD is a virus and the role of LSD INFILTRATIONNISTES is to study FASHIONWORLD algorithms as a virologist studies viruses, not to pass it on but to provide an antidote. » STEVE OKLYN LA SOCIÉTÉ DES INFILTRATIONNISTES SIM LIST 2016 Pharrell Williams Steve Oklyn • Mode
[ZOMBIELAND] STEVE OKLYN Thirty-nine FASHIONWORLD zombies were rushed to emergency rooms this week after overdosing on V2-just ten fewer than the whole month of June. With the « synthetic » FASHIONWORLD epidemic threatening to spiral out of control LA SOCIETE DES INFILTRATIONNISTES announced today an aggressive plan to battle the contagion on multiple social media Steve Oklyn • Mode