032c Ready-to-Wear FW24 / Fall/Winter 2024-2025 Collection presents NIGHTHAWKS during Paris Men Fashion Week
On January 18, 2024, 032c launches NIGHTHAWKS, the Fall/Winter 2024-2025 collection from 032c Ready-to-Wear. The release marks the brand’s first runway show to be staged during Paris Mens’ Fashion Week.
Channeling the ungraspable, seemingly ageless realism of painter Edward Hopper and the murky, moody color landscape of painter Victor Man, NIGHTHAWKS, according to the collection statement, is an uncompromising, ahistorical take on the notion of timelessness, intended to provide a versatile yet enigmatic city “uniform”:
“NIGHTHAWKS takes ‘timelessness’ ruthlessly. The 032c Ready-to-Wear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 collection is anti-Zeitgeist, a refusal to engage the present or anticipate the near future, like fashion is supposed to do. NIGHTHAWKS rejects the nostalgia and cynicism that have become bound to the contemporary in favor of a brutally urban realism that knows no epoch. It is a uniform designed not for the season, but for the city and the self.
NIGHTHAWKS is about seeing, a study in prisms and palettes. Every garment’s hue is tenderly caressed as though by soot. No grayed-out blue or moss-dark green, no murky burgundy or lakebed brown goes beyond the edge to approach a color that is frank or “pure.” NIGHTHAWKS sees not through a corrective, sharpened lens, but through a street-level fog. Every surface is as though thinly veiled, yet every outline is sharp. Slim-cut silhouettes glow through the vapor like icons, secular saints of electricity and the night at 032c Ready-to-Wear FW24.
NIGHTHAWKS finds opulence in objectivity and observation, decadence in silence. Lurex punctures raglan knits like rays of light through somber clouds; broken viscose lets the glow in, too. For evening: drapery and muted sequins, quietly incandescent on tops and dresses, leggings and beanies. Every look is “day to night” if the sun is never out in the first place.
Details 032c Ready-to-Wear FW24, Outfits tighten as the wearer turns within, crossing from the outside world into their own experience. Suiting, mostly black, goes from loose to confining. Some garments stretch to yield to the shift, but others do not: tailored jackets, trousers, and pencil skirts are taut; jeans are skinny; denims are overdyed and unyielding; hoodies and bombers are cut almost too close.
Cotton and knit layers meet outerwear – parkas, shearling and down jackets, leather coats and tactical trousers, a calf leather scarf, a synthetic fur – built for the eternity of a fluorescently lit diner window, and for the darkened street streets outside it. NIGHTHAWKS is clothing that softens harsh realities and strengthens fragile ones.”
Debuting during PFW on the NIGHTHAWKS runway is 032c | Alpha Industries, a co-branded capsule showcase of heavy nylon twill. Stripped-down black-and-blue bombers with contrast lining in Alpha Industries’ signature orange are centerpieces in a 14-piece collection that includes gilets, overalls, mens’ and womens’ trousers, cargo skirts, and accessories.
ALPINE model sunglasses created in partnership with MYKITA – the latest in 032c’s ongoing collaboration with the Berlin eyewear brand – bring sport and technology to the presentation, their wrapa-round design breaking through NIGHTHAWKS’ clouded aesthetic with moments of bright metallic shine.
032c Ready-to-Wear FW24 additional partners for this season’s show include BYREDO for make-up, PHYTO for hair, SCAROSSA for shoes, plus Germany’s BETT1.
ABOUT 032c READYTOWEAR
032c READYTOWEAR is a brand of womenswear, menswear, and unisex clothing designed by creative director Maria Koch. Presented on a seasonal calendar, the label explores the evolving nature of fashion itself – as design practice and as industry, as a tool for actualization and as lived experience. 032c READYTOWEAR is available at our storefront and gallery on Berlin’s Kantstrasse, in 80 stores worldwide, including SSENSE, KaDeWe, Webster, and GR8, and directly at www.032c.com/store
ABOUT 032c
032c is a media and fashion brand for the 21st century. Our workshop in Berlin-Charlottenburg is a production and research center where we assess and contribute to contemporary culture. Our findings are published digitally and as a collectible manual for freedom, research, and creativity, printed twice annually.
All images 032c Ready-to-Wear FW24 / Fall/Winter 2024-2025 Collection by 032c
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