Lucie and Luke Meier's 'Macro' Publication Furthers Their Stance On Championing Artists
Lucie and Luke Meier have long been known to champion artists, making it no surprise they've called on long-standing Jil Sander collaborator Chris Rhodes to photograph the brand's A/W 22 collection, which will be included in the duo's new publication project Macro.
Lucie and Luke Meier have long been known to champion artists, making it no surprise they've called on long-standing Jil Sander collaborator Chris Rhodes to photograph the brand's A/W 22 collection, which will be included in the duo's new publication project Macro.
Furthering their continued efforts in offering the Jil Sander platform to artist collaborators, photographer Chris Rhodes makes up Lucie and Luke Meier's next instalment of their publication project Macro, capturing the brand's A/W 22 collections in a series of still-life photographs. The project subsequently transforms garments into architectural elements that are meant to mimic parts of the environment where objects would go out of proportion, becoming surreal and challenging how we look at things.
Elegant - yet abstract - shapes suddenly morph into the ambiguous, as the cylinder of an elongated Cannolo bag forces us to take up new ways of seeing, as does the profile of a black pump shoe with an aluminium blade heel, the frontal engagement of a shiny black pointy boot and an inflated handbag with a red heart-shaped ornament; body parts become landscape as scale is enlarged, morphed and manipulated.
Overall, the aim here is to challenge and experiment with unconventional design processes and artistic notions that have long been embedded in Lucie and Luke Meier's work at Jil Sander. Macro is, therefore, the testimony of a journey, acting as a suggestion provoking new ways of how design can be perceived and displayed.