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owenstudio.co.uk is the online platform for the personal work and self-initiated projects produced by designers Paul + Kayla Owen.



// The duo have spent over twenty years in Art, Fashion and the Creative industries in a variety of roles from Designers, Brand Guardians to Creative Directors working with many global brands, including Benetton, Gieves & Hawkes, Hackett, Harvey Nichols, John Smedley, Timberland, Selfridges and Stella McCartney. Today they continue to design, but also consult and collaborate with many industry and academic partners, providing design solutions, research and publishing outputs around the themes of experimental art, fashion, identity and place.
Second Skin | 02 | Dialogical bodies
Media: instagram takeover
Location: Liverpool, UK.
Year: 2020
About the work:
A series of investigational images of leather garments developed to evoke the material properties and cultural dimensions of leather in relation to the artists research into the notion of Second Skin [Deconstructing the Fashion Leather Aesthetic] and her perspectives of how the theme of ‘Home’ and ‘Leather’ are interconnected and inseparable.