I've already faced my demons and admitted an addiction to fair isle knits and its time to confess that this obsession has extended to grey jersey. I thought that I had - due to my relentless and fruitless search for the holy grail of grey sweatshirts - exhausted such an affliction but, cue The T-Shirt Issue and I'm off the wagon.
A collaboration between Linda Kostowski and Mashallah Design, the T-Shirt Issue pushes grey jersey into a new realm. The architectural, almost origami-like pieces derive from digital scans of the designers' bodies - the resolution of which defines the resultant number of polygons - and also the designer's own biographical memories.
The unexpected marriage of hard science and memory is echoed in the pieces themselves. The pieces are at once stiff and fluid and a fabric - in my mind associated with lounging, jogging bottoms and sweatshirts - is transformed into sculpture. If only I could get my hands on that wolf.
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