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owenstudio.co.uk
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.
Shopping: iD Magazine issue 359 Icons and Idols.

Media: Print
Location: UK
Year: 2020
  


About the work:
Shopping is an ongoing collaborative research project between Paul and Jermaine Francis. An observational portrait project which captures the unique codes surrounding fashion, beauty, style and identity found deeply rooted in the fabric of everyday life in Liverpool. Published in iD Magazine EYE | In Liverpool across twenty pages and online at www.i-d.vice.com in March 2020, Louise Shannon curator from TATE and Magda Keaney curator at the National Portrait Gallery, discuss beauty culture and the phenomena of women wearing rollers in their hair, out in public. It celebrates women, their power, strength, routines and obsessions for individuality in one of the beauty industry’s capital cities.

*photography by Jermaine Francis