IDEA’S ANGELA HILL ANNOUNCES NEW GALLERY VENTURE AND TEASES NEW WINTER VANDENBRINK RELEASE AT BYRONISH, THE NEW DIFFUSION BRAND BY BYRONESQUE, HOSTED BY SOLEBOX PARIS.
Dear Shaded Viewers,
Byronesque has gotten together with IDEA’s Angela Hill who is launching a new gallery venture with an exclusive tease of Winter Vandenbrink’s new work, TOBY, the follow up to VANDAL’S.
Inspired by this image of TOBY, Byronesque, is showing up at solebox in Paris with a designer-meets-actual-sports-wear sale appropriately called Hickey. The sale opens up with a brief talk between Byronesque, Angela Hill and Winter about their new projects on Thursday 26th. Doors open from 6pm – talk at 7h30. Solebox 31 Pl. du Marche Saint-Honore, 75001.
Winter will be signing a limited-edition numbered prints of his most recent work VANDALS; a series of football posters available for sale and exhibited alongside the Byronish sale until 7pm Friday 27 th September.
The Byronish sale includes a selection of 30 pieces of worn, and some perfectly worn-in designer sportswear; beaten up Celine hi-tops presented on velvet Gucci pillows. Vintage football shirts, rugby stripe tops, old Ralph Polo shirts- good styled with tailoring and some nylon football shorts – Celine and Hermes track pants, best worn with something from Solebox or a Celine track top meant to be worn with anything that isn’t sportswear. Other pieces include a Miu Miu tennis club set, Miguel Adrover’s sold out re-issued monogram baseball cap and unworn Palace by Juergen Teller t-shirts and accessories.
“We’re selling a small edit of sporty Celine, Hermes, Palace and Ralph Lauren, amongst others, sold with a free Hickey sports bag.
Winter is signing limited edition #’d prints.
Gill Linton says: “It’s all very early 2000’s authentic council estate chic, which, as it turns out Angela and Winter are also inspired by, so it made sense to do this together. Byronish is the cheaper, scrappy streetwise cousin of Byronesque which explains this mash-up selection of streetwear, layered with the irony of being presented in the chic surroundings of Solebox’s new Paris store. Which as it happens is very Byronesque.”
Angela Hill says: “It’s like wearing your Goyard crossbody with your trackies from Oxford St. giving out your business card for bud in the alleyway. It’s buying into art for the first time. It’s about a pair of vintage beaten up Hermes sweatpants with some sub label nylon football shorts like your cousin everyone ignores might wear. It’s Ladbroke Grove meets Belgravia Waitrose.”
Henricus Loeffen from solebox says: “It’s an unparalleled conversation when bringing cultures and styles together, when high and low merge. Game-makers in their own discipline, a new personality when brought together. It’s an honour to host such inspiring people and iconic pieces of history for our first Paris Fashion Week since the landing of our new store and community space in Paris.
ABOUT BYRONESQUE Byronesque.com. @byronesquevintage
We’re not for beginners and we’re not here to spoon-feed. We tell stories and sell clothes for people who were there at the time. Who romanticize being there at the time. Who don’t want to be figured out. We start at punk, with the irreverence to re-issue the overlooked and longed for. We believe that just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s good and our edit is ruthless. We thought the future would be cooler. But we are against outdated nostalgia. Our connection to the past is obscure. Our present more polarizing and more lasting than the landfills of imitations. The future of vintage fashion. By Byronesque.
ABOUT ANGELA HILL GALLERY Ideanow.online. @idea.ltd
Angela Hill is a Photographer, Co-Director of IDEA, London, Publisher and a Curator. Inspired by film she is always striving to replicate her feelings as a teenager; family life and school references are used constantly in her photographic practice and in publishing. An only child, the constant yearning for Hill is to go back to a secure family unit of three. When photographing a fifteenyear-old girl, she captures their spirit; they are trying to rip off the Band Aid attaching them to their childhood existence. Whether it is done slowly one agonising tear after another or pulled off in one go is a decision that must be made.
The presentation of Winter Vandenbrink’s limited edition poster prints is the first ouvrage of the Angela Hill Gallery. Winter Vandenbrink publishes his second book; VANDALS; TOBY with IDEA DOVER STREET MARKET LONDON for FRIEZE.
ABOUT WINTER VANDENBRINK
Wintervandenbrink.com. @wintervandenbrink Monster and Primark may not scream high fashion, but photographer Winter Vandenbrink captures them with the same intensity as he does Louis Vuitton or Bottega Veneta. Growing up an only child in the Netherlands, his own shoppingmall-loitering teenage years have developed into an adulthood spent documenting the turbulence of urban youth. Now residing himself in the metropolis of Paris, Vandenbrink’s work chronicles inner-city anxieties against steely-grey backdrops, anchoring subcultural significance in backpacks, tattoos and tracksuits. Such concrete symbols exhibit a gritty masculinity, but the bravado and boisterousness are always tempered by the fragility and softness of youth.
ABOUT solebox solebox.com. @solebox
solebox was founded in 2002 in Berlin. As one of the first German sneaker stores, solebox quickly established itself as an innovative concept in the sneaker scene. Today, solebox has 7 stores across Europe – besides the German locations in Berlin and Munich, there are also stores in Vienna, Brussels, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Paris.
Each store has its own design concept and stands on its own – what unites them is the carefully curated product range. The latest sneakers, streetwear from different continents, but also some pieces from the high fashion world can be found at solebox. In Berlin and Paris, solebox offers a year-round free community space that people can book for their own projects.”
@byronesquevintage @wintervandenbrink @solebox #hickey #byron
Later,
Diane.
