Comme des Garçons

Sommaire

• Palomo Spain

  A Spanish menswear label blending
  tradition with flamboyance

  par Violet Conroy
• Lin Ke

  The Chinese artist using
  his MacBook screen to probe
  the depths of the modern
  technological condition

  par Donna Schons
• Rachel MacLean

  The Scottish video artist unites
  political disasters, Pinocchio,
  perception and performance

  par Will Furtado
• The Art of Dries

  To mark the occasion
  of the
  Belgian designer’s
  100th show,
  Dries Van Noten
  talks SLEEK
  through some of
  the artworks that
  have inspired
  his illustrious archive
  of design

  par Jessica Hannan
• Young Bloods

  SLEEK styles
  five emerging,
  cutting edge
  fashion talents

• Adrian Joffe

  Ahead of the Met
  opening, we
  spoke to Rei
  Kawakubo’s
  partner in life
  and business
  on the exhibition,
  Comme’s
  history and
  his and Rei’s
  chemistry

  par Tamsin Blanchard
• Possessing Only Distance

  Anri Sala confronts
  historical and
  political
  realities
  through musical
  and physical
  encounters

  par Emily McDermott
• Paint it Black

  From the colour of evil
  to racial emancipation,
  black has represented
  a multitude
  of meanings. SLEEK
  charts its changing
  significance from Medieval
  Europe to
  the present and finds
  out how it’s giving
  today’s artists
  and designers
  a blank slate
  with which to change
  the world.

  par Francesca Gavin
• Faustian Bargain

  SLEEK goes behind the scenes
  for Faust, Anne Imhof’s
  Golden Lion winning Venice
  Biennale Pavilion

• That’s Entertainment

  Berlin collective Conglomerate make
  TV-inspired videos bridging
  the gap between art as form and
  content

  par Alicia Reuter
• Rebel Youth Springs Eternal

  YBA star Sarah Lucas is back
  with two new shows in San
  Francisco and Berlin proving
  she’s still as insubordinate
  as ever

• We Are The Robots

  From ancient
  civilisations to
  Japanese dogs,
  the computer-generated
  inhabitants of
  Ian Cheng’s
  simulated realities
  are merging
  the worlds of
  art and science

  par Jeni Fulton
• Breaking the elements

  Stills & Strokes reimagine
  the Grecian-inspired flacons of Paco
  Rabanne’s Invictus & Olympéa Intense

• Designs For Life

  Urban design installation "MINI Living -
  Breathe" reconnects people in Milan
  with their city, nature and themselves.

• Always The Sun

  As summer approaches, SLEEK took a drive
  around Cape Town in a white Porsche 911
  Carrera GTS cabriolet to discover what the
  city has to offer