We’re all individuals, and we’re all part of a bigger whole – in fact many of those. But do the best ideas come from one individual working in isolation, or from the collective genius of many working in collaboration – the thing Brian Eno calls “scenius”? And in this endlessly networked era, how do artists and fashion designers generate their visions together and then bring them to reality?
Those are the ideas we explore in the summer issue of Sleek, publishing next week, which includes essays on fashion design in the age of Tumblr and walking, that most singular of solitary activities, in art, along with interviews with art-world scourge Billy Childish, the iconoclastic young New York artist Avery Singer and a journey through Berlin’s new art collective underground. On top of that, there’s fantastic fashion from photographers Markus Pritzi, Emanuele Fontanesi, Mark Kean, Christoph Wohlfahrt and Patrick Houi in Paris, London and Berlin.
