apn gallery X Souvenir Official france hoodie
100% Cotton
Oversized fit
Cecile is 178cm tall
Handmade in France (more details below)
If you usually wear size S: Strong oversized look
If you usually wear size M: Oversized look as on the pictures
If you usually wear size L: Light oversized look
If you usually wear size XL: Light to no oversized look
Made from souvenir official’s deadstock garments
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Unique Pieces, United Voices - Artist Sophie Hurley Walker designs for France
Being able to freely express our beliefs and being able to demonstrate is the most valuable good that we have in the EU and it is worth fighting for. In collaboration with Berlin-based social fashion brand souvenir official, and six EU-based artists we created a capsule to raise awareness for the European election 2024. However, before we could send the pieces to the artists, prep work was necessary. Fashion designers Marika Hellmund from Germany and Filip Bejek from France collaborated to reimagine the raw deadstock pieces we received from Souvenir Official.
These included six hoodies and a few denim pants left over from a previous collaboration, which they transformed into six completely new outfits. Marika and Filip incorporated an abstract version of the EU stars into the design process, threading them throughout the entire collection to visually align the pieces with our message of creating unity and advocating for a strong, democratic Europe
Introducing Sophie Hurley Walker
“Referencing buried jeans slowly deteriorating over time, and apn’s use of deadstock garments, the broken down then reconstructed pieces have embroidered words hidden amongst the paint and layered figures, embedded into the fibres. Connected by a thread, Souvenir Official’s hoodie, a reminder of how fragile our systems are and how we need to protect them - the gap in a row of stars never felt so wide.
My background is in textile design and I centre my work around the human form and natural world, often figures within a layered composition of colours and organic markings. Taking shapes and lines and expressing these through pattern and texture, treating the mediums I work in as paintings.
I wanted to collaborate with Souvenir Official and APN Gallery because they both stand for causes I care about. As a Remainer, Souvenir’s anti-Brexit beginnings, and apn’s use of deadstock materials felt true to my own practice. The EU is certainly not perfect and there are huge issues with the way it is governed, but I believe that making positive change is about being at the table, not pissing on it - Vote in the EU elections June 6th-9th.“
-Sophie Hurley Walker
Photo on the left: This is how Sophie received the pieces
Photo on the right: This is how the pieces looked after Sophie was finished with them