Etudes Explores the Modern City

French artists Aurélien Arbet and Jérémie Egry return to OC with their fourth Études collection, a symbiotic evolution of art and fashion that this season explores how global communication shapes modern cities. "This notion embodies a melting-pot where tradition meets modernity, ethnicity meets technology, and craftsmanship meets digitalism, thus creating a universal language,” bills the brand's Spring/Summer 2014 press release. The references to globalized culture are most obvious on T-shirts bearing graphics of multiple languages and Internet-influenced images, as well as the static-y ombre pattern by artist collaborator Manuel Fernandez. Meanwhile, the collection's use of hybrid materials––cotton alongside PVC alongside polyester––gestures towards the modern city's marriage of the natural and the synthetic. 

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POWDER T-SHIRT in Surf. Photos courtesy of Études

FRONTIERE COAT in Satellite 


Etoile Crewneck Sweatshirt in Europe

Fugace Shirt in Snow

Ombre Shirt in Manuel Fernandez


Powder T-Shirt in World Talk

Etoile Trousers in Password Dyed