Like Lipstick Traces Launches Stateside
- story Chioma Nnadi
Break down the etymology of streetwear label Hixsept and what you’re left with are the names of two French graffiti writers—Hëx and Hept aka Aurélien Arbet and Jérémie Egry. Their latest project, Like Lipstick Traces, is an ode to those early ragtag days and chronicles the lives of 13 graffiti writers across the planet. Each artist was given 100 polaroid exposures to play with, and the results are a hard and fast scrapbook of hair-raising escapades on the job, like swinging from skyscrapers in Sao Paulo, or leaving footprints at the scene of the crime in Oslo. The book launched at Colette earlier this summer and gets the official New York welcome tomorrow at Reed Space.
Hixsept and the Atomic Peace Project
- story Chioma Nnadi
We have been faithfully rescuing the lookbooks of French streetwear label Hixsept from the recycling pile for a good fashion minute now. Hixsept designers Aurelien Arbet and Jérémie Egry lovingly produce an art journal with every collection, so we weren’t surprised when Arbet handed us this equally collectible poster by illustrator Samuel François at our first official rendezvous in New York earlier this summer. Atomic Peace is their latest series of symbolically-enhanced tees, and the patchwork peace, anarchy and ying/yang pieces are chic reinterpretations of stoner French exchange student classics.
Style Redux: Hixsept
- story THE FADER
When it comes to a little black spot, French street wear brand Hixsept knows its expandable bounds. After being featured in our March/April issue, Hixsept released their pixelated Le Terrain Vague collection, a more neutral take on those little Lichtenstein dots. The series is an experiment of black and white gradient—just as much wearable as it is an art project—using various sized black dots to make dark, light and medium grey shades on tailored pants and sweaters. The latest version is a fifty percent surface distribution of black dots on a white palette which the boys over at Hixsept describe as “created through a period of sweet sleepless nights and dark long days.” Only the French can make grey seem so intriguing. Peep more after the jump.
