032c, Issue 45 – Summer 2024: The Opioid Crisis Lookbook

032c is a bi-annual contemporary culture magazine at the intersections of fashion, art and politics. Finding the new in the old and the old in the new, 032c invites leading and emerging creatives to collaborate on mono- thematic issues. It has been considered to be “dedicated to the celebration of ideas” by i-D, “revue ultra-pointue” by French Vogue, or simply as “the Berlin magazine that propogates an aesthetic of brutal elegance” by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “The magazine fuses art and architecture, literature, urban studies and fashion in ways”, states New York Times, “that can make one forget how depressing a visit to a newsstand has become.” 032c is internationally distributed to selected art bookstores, fashion boutiques and newsstands. The magazine has been exhibited at places such as London Design Museum, Colette (Paris), GAS (Tokyo), The Pineal Eye (London) and the 3rd Berlin Biennial.

In this issue:

Welcome to the darkest 032c issue ever. Entitled “The Opioid Crisis Lookbook,” Issue #45 serves the servants and exalts filth and longevity. The dossier by DASHA ZAHAROVA and DUSTIN CAUCHI, the two editors behind the magazine OCL, provide us with a historic and aesthetic study of America’s drug epidemic while artist Tobias Spichtig follows them through the streets of Berlin. In conversation with Cassidy George, the couple reveals why they do creative consulting for cults and share theory and literature by Antonin Artaud and Cookie Mueller.

Yet, there is also light. An otherworldly one emanates from Petra Collins and Helena Tejedor’s shoot of ROSALÍA, which is rhetorically embellished with nonfiction by Heather McCalden. VARG²™ welcomes Shane Anderson into his world of wolves while Raphael Bliss captures the Swedish producer in a swamp at night. LUKA SABBAT tells Claire Koron Elat why he has a guillotine at his dinner table and Nicolas Wagner and Ras Bartram capture the existentialist in one of his hometowns, Paris. Also in the French capital, KATE UPTON slurps margaritas in bed with Sebastián Faena and Ras Bartram. The photographer-stylist duo also visits a farm where LOLI BAHIA shows us what the world wants. Phillip Pyle ventures into the cavities of artist MIRE LEE’s ugliness, formlessness, and stupidity, and BRYAN JOHNSON tells Dagmar Von Taube and Sven Michaelsen how to stay alive forever with approximately 100 pills a day. Hendrik Schneider and Tim Heyduck explore the identity of chrome, and Jens Balzer uncovers the necessity of cultural appropriation together with Shane Anderson.

Plus: The X-files introduce the 032c universe featuring the brutally honest band BAR ITALIA, Brutalist BLACKHAINE, Bling-bling-CEO BABYXSOSA, Spam Curator PAUL HAMELINE, Anxiety Critic ISABELLE GRAW, Wax Figurine Analyst ALLEN JONES, Moodboard Rejecter ROK HWANG, School Runaway SEAN DELEAR, and Streetwear Godfather JUN TAKAHASHI. As always, the Berlin Review rounds out the issue with our favorite books of the season.