Charlie Koolhaas’ fabric photographs transfer the streets, surfaces, and textures of global cities onto the body, turning the wearer into a living collage. When worn as clothes, photographs that document a turbulent and unglamorous world become beautiful sensual objects that challenge us to reconsider beauty and use fashion to disturb the social order rather than confirm it.
These handmade garments that act as urban camouflage draws on photographs taken from Charlie Koolhaas’s book City Lust, which is an intimate portrait of five diverse cities, the progression of globalization and how it connects us.
