Burnin’ up

Craig Green sets his wooden structures alight
By Alex James Taylor | Fashion | 5 April 2018

Craig Green has become synonymous with his incredible wooden sculptures. From his first MAN catwalk show in 2013 (remember? The one that so brilliantly vexed the Daily Mail) to last season’s wearable wooden vessels, heaped onto models like magnificent burdens.

Now, for this season’s campaign imagery, the British menswear designer has transformed his SS18 creations into talismanic structures, erected in abandoned surroundings, and then set ablaze.

 

Photographed by Dan Tobin Smith, the message behind the imagery – “live-in-the-moment celebrations of process over outcome” – is a poignant take on today’s fast-fashion industry, where craft is often overshadowed by speed and sales. “Documented in altarpiece style photographic duos, these simple materials are twisted and stretched to their very limit,” reads the press release. “A display that explores the idea of transcending both practical and decorative purpose, in pursuit of the purely symbolic.”

Following the designer’s FW17 campaign, in which he created human rafts inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian man and images of Hindu deities, this season’s Wickerman-esque blazing structures create an equally arresting image.

Gallery: Craig Green SS18 by Amy Gwatkin

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