27 August 2009
‘A bizarre travelogue into dramatic architecture’ by National Forest.
National Forest is a graphic studio formed by American artists Steven Harrington and Justin Krietemeyer.
For our time-scanning Autumn/Winter 09 line, they designed a very specific capsule-collection homage to Superstudio’s Fundamental Acts series.
Created from 1971 to 1973, the “Fundamental Acts” were a series of 5 experimental movies centred on the relations between architecture as a conscious formalization of the planet, and human life.
The whole series was based on Gustav Freytag’s classical dramatic structure. Each video made a natural progression into the following five acts:
-The exposition;
-The rising action;
-The climax (or turning point);
-The falling action;
-The Catastrophe.
National Forest has adapted this dramatic pyramid structure to our clothing line.
The line is composed of five surprising and radical pieces: Life-Youth-Ceremony-Love- Death.
With this new collection, National Forest has showed us a new and darker side of their work: “A bizarre travelogue into dramatic architecture”
Please click here to see the collection.