“It’s about supporting someone who’s been doing it for as long as I have. It’s about figuring out how to connect the two worlds—fashion and skateboarding—in a natural way,” Lucien Clarke says when asked about how a collaboration involving a luxury fashion house and skateboarding can be as authentic as possible.
Clarke is a Jamaica-born professional skateboarder based in London, and skates as part of the Palace Skateboards crew. The 31-year-old is also no stranger to the luxury fashion world. Since Virgil Abloh’s appointment at Louis Vuitton, Clarke has been a regular fixture at his menswear runway shows, walking for the spring/summer 2019 and 2020 seasons in Paris. The two connected thanks to their common passion for skating as well as the arts, and according to Abloh, he was introduced to Clarke “through Lev Tanju and Gareth Skewis of Palace Skateboards, who are friends of mine”.
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WATERWORLD
In a world of environmental disaster, political turmoil, economic crisis, social upheaval and public health emergency, is the logical next step for humanity the construction of floating maritime communities? Or is so-called seasteading just an extravagant passion project for paranoid tech bros and alt-utopian dreamers?
CANCELLED
The prolific public embrace of ‘cancelling’ disgraced or accused celebrities means the erasure of certain parts of our shared cultural history. But how, Huw Walmsley-Evans wonders, can we separate the art from the artist?
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High Score
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