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.
Laces Out 2018 | trainer festival Liverpool

Media: exhibition / print
Location: Liverpool
Year: 2018



About The Work:
One day exhibition at LacesOut trainer festival, Hinterlands, Liverpool.

‘The Fashion of Counter Culture, Obsession, Style and Place’ exhibition primarily focuses on working class men and their interests in vintage European sportswear labels through observing, investigating and documenting narratives of obsessions with dress codes and how these informed the Terrace Fashion sub-culture and its evolution. It seeks to reveal, restore and clarify current knowledge of this group, starting with the birthplace of this phenomena: Liverpool.

The exhibition is an ongoing collaboration with Transalpino, Liverpool, where the curation of over 100 key garments and artefacts, including rare, original and vintage pieces from private collections showcase the impact of branded labels in respect of the Terrace Casuals in Merseyside from 1977 to 1997.