Within the autumn of 2020, Tracy Suen and Jules Volleberg launched APOC Retailer, a discipline-spanning market which collates one of the best in progressive, avant-garde design – from vogue and jewelry to artwork and homeware – with a give attention to rising expertise and area of interest, offbeat labels. Oftentimes items are completely one-off types, made-to-order, or crafted from repurposed supplies (Suen and Volleberg be aware they’re drawn in the direction of ’progressive and consciously-created items’ of their curation). True to this strategy, the title APOC is an amalgam of ‘Anthropocene’, ‘epoch’ and ‘apocalypse’.
‘We reside within the Anthropocene, a time when human exercise dominates the world we reside in with monumental penalties,’ they are saying. ‘Consequently, a brand new technology of creatives has emerged who care concerning the world and need to make a distinction.’
Various vogue gifting: APOC Retailer Christmas e-market 2022
Sylvi Sundkler shrunken woven corset and bag
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A brand new Christmas e-market – which was first launched late final month with common drops coming all through December – continues this strategy, Suen and Volleberg curating an array of other presents as a riposte to the Black Friday gross sales and rampant consumerism of the festive season. ’Yearly, we at all times tried to get a particular present for our family members, ideally one thing surprising and one thing they wouldn’t get themselves,’ Volleberg tells Wallpaper*.
’From Black Friday onward, shoppers are buying to insane extents, partly as a consequence of manufacturers and retailers providing offers too good to cross on. At APOC, we wished to do a launch of particular merchandise which might be made with minimal affect, largely made by the designers themselves in their very own studios, and sometimes produced from remade or deadstock supplies.’
Lou de Bètoly donkey purse
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Trend highlights embody Swedish designer Matilda Sundkler, who works beneath the alias Sylvi Sundkler creating deconstructed clothes – corsets, baggage, attire – from shrunken waste materials in a course of she developed, or Berlin-based Lou de Bètoly, who incorporates discovered and second-hand supplies into her playful and oftentimes surreal collections (one explicit purse is a soft-toy donkey stitched with glass beads and Swarovski crystals). Olivia Rubens’ ‘planet-friendly knitwear’ additionally options within the edit, as does South Korea-born Central Saint Martins alum Sungbin Hong’s label Nibgnus which options sensual cut-outs and heart-shaped motifs.
Elsewhere, artist duo Nicholas Gardner and Saša Štucin of Tender Baroque – whose work not too long ago featured within the Danish Pavillion on the 59th Venice Biennale – have created a one-off anodised aluminium vase, whereas Brussels-based Naomi Gilon affords three distinctive ceramic purses (the artist’s signature piece) and a sequence of candleholders as a part of the e-market. Los Angeles jeweller Emma Pryde additionally options, her providing comprising necklaces, earrings and bracelets impressed by each digital video-game realms and historical artefacts – the proper festive adornment.
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