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is the online platform for the work 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 research and publishing outputs around the themes of fashion, identity and place.
The Fashion of Counter Culture

Media: Exhibition
Location: Liverpool 
Year: 2018




About the work:
Counter Culture - Obsession, Style and Place is an exhibition that brings together artefacts, photography, magazine references, interviews and other modes of storytelling to demonstrate the impact and significance that branded labels, sportswear and in particular ‘trainers’ had in respect of Terrace Casuals - their obsessions, style, dress codes and the resonance to geographical place and in fashion history. An exhibition celebrates the impact Liverpool had on this global fashion phenomenon. Paul worked alongside Brendan (Jockey)
Wyatt and Jay Montessori of Transalpino, Liverpool in curating the first of many exhibtions under ‘The Fashion of Counter Culture’ theme.