Industrial Fashion’s Non-Fashion Hat

The label's debut product is born from experimenting with manufacturing processes instead of trends

Spotted during this year’s London Design Festival at RCA’s Big Small show, which delved into contemporary contradictions, were some hats—striking in their simplicity. They’re the debut product from newly launched label Industrial Fashion, dreamed up by London-raised designer Julia Georgallis and German-born designer Dustin Jessen. As a counter to the trend-driven fashion industry, these two RCA grads are creating stylish accessories with looks influenced by …

Interview: Mr Twin Sister

The leaderless five-member band shares personal anecdotes and the three-year process of making their freshly dropped eponymous album

The five members of the band Mr Twin Sister, armed with a name change and their own recently established label (bidding adieu to Domino), are finally letting go of an album three years in the making. And upon listening through the eight tracks in their eponymous LP, which fittingly revolves around the themes of isolation and self-identity, the time invested shows up clearly in the …

The Thing The Book: A Monument to the Book as Object

Miranda July and Jonathan Lethem discuss their contributions to the conceptual subscription service's interpretation of an art book

Writers aren’t the only ones who turn to paper pages as a creative canvas—George Maciunas’ Fluxus Editions, Tom Phillip’s Humument’s “A Humument,” and Tauba Auerbach’s “RGB Colorspace Atlas” are all examples of artists who have explored the infinite potential of the book form. The Thing Quarterly’s interpretation of an “art book” or even “book as object” is unlike anything you’ve ever let collect dust on …