{"id":68617,"date":"2018-07-13T12:56:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T12:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=68617"},"modified":"2018-08-09T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T09:30:32","slug":"oil-aw18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/oil-aw18\/","title":{"rendered":"The Berlin-based brand making politically powerful clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,81,10172],"tags":[1288,1398,10880,34,10881,2436,10882,10883,1456,10884],"class_list":["post-68617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berlin","category-fashion","category-film","tag-1970s","tag-70s","tag-angela-davis","tag-berlin","tag-black-panthers","tag-environment","tag-oil","tag-olive-brown","tag-sustainable-fashion","tag-the-white-album"],"acf":{"main_category":81,"legacy":false,"subtitle":"Inspired by an era when people passionately fought for a better future, OIL's latest collection presents the best of the '70s \u2014 taking their cues from Joan Didion and Angela Davis.","hero":{"video":false,"image":false,"header_color":"black","overlay_color":"","overlay_text_color":"black"},"teasers":{"video":false,"image":false,"width":"6","proportion":"natural"},"related_articles":[54704,42967,68610],"next_article":[54704],"content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

It\u2019s not often you describe a fashion designer as righteous. Berlin-based designer, Olive Brown, and her brand,\u00a0OIL<\/a>, however, are just that. Since OIL\u2019s launch in 2016, Brown has committed herself to making environmentally and ethically conscious fashion.\u00a0Her clothes are produced locally, using sustainable energy sources in order to generate as little waste as possible. Living up to its fluid, amorphous\u00a0name,\u00a0OIL\u2019s aesthetic, in recent seasons, has evolved to match the spirit of Brown\u2019s mission. Arising from the shadows of Berlin\u2019s nightlife, OIL started out as an effort to create the club looks Brown felt her and her friends were missing. Her initial embrace of the techno aesthetic quickly evolved into its rejection\u00a0\u2014 spend long enough in Berlin, and light, colourful clothing begins to feel far more subversive than black and mesh ensembles.<\/p>\n

Brown\u2019s latest collection is \u201cinspired by an earlier era when people felt passionately about fighting for a brighter future\u201d. After acquiring a fascination with Joan Didion\u2019s seminal essay anthology,\u00a0The White Album,<\/i>\u00a0Brown swapped Ben Klock for Funkadelic and monochrome for rainbow. For this collection, Brown presents the best of the \u201970s through her fearless use of print and a bold colour palette consisting of brick red, muddy brown and mustard.\u00a0Retro floral jumpsuits, blue satin trousers, tangerine plaid and tie-dyed yellow button-ups abound in her striking homage to a bygone era. For Brown, however, these are quite literally statement pieces:\u00a0she believes that all the elements in her designs \u2014 the fabric, pattern, material and silhouette \u2014 have a political significance. Furthermore, this collection harnesses the power of cultural signifiers, forcing one to consider the historical context that bred these aesthetics in the first place.<\/p>\n

Her nostalgia for the \u201970s isn\u2019t for shag carpets and handlebar moustaches; rather it\u2019s for an era of fervent political protest embodied by the likes of the Black Panthers, Angela Davis, and the impassioned supporters of the Sexual Revolution. The social progress made back then with regard to race, gender and class was the product of intense and emphatic resistance to the growing New Right. Through her expressive, \u201970s-hued clothing, Brown emphasises how similar our political landscape is today \u2014 and provides us with a wardrobe designed to inspire our very own resistance.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

The trouser suit, the ultimate \u201cempowerment\u201d garment, is a key motif within Brown\u2019s collection.\u00a0While her unisex business suits with dramatic shoulders allude to the increase of women in the workplace, her worker suits evoke feelings of solidarity. Despite her clothes\u2019 overtly retro roots, Brown\u2019s talent lies in keeping her garments current \u2014 although we\u2019ve come to associate all that is contemporary, youthful and cool in fashion with streetwear, OIL proposes an alternative, one which proves that more distinguished designs and elegant silhouettes can possess a vibrant attitude all of their own.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy greatest fear is that the world view of our generation will be that we didn\u2019t do anything, that we were too involved with ourselves and social media to make a change,\u201d says Brown. The designer believes wholeheartedly in the possibility of transformation from the bottom up, particularly in the fashion industry. As someone who has only worn secondhand clothing since the age of 14, Brown is passionate about raising awareness for more meaningful consumption. \u201cYou have power in where you spend your dollar,\u201d the designer insists. Choosing to support brands that are more environmentally and politically aware, rather than high-street, fast fashion empires \u2014 who frequently practice questionable environmental and labour policies \u2014\u00a0can fuel change.\u00a0\u201cCompanies and corporations try to appease their customers. If you stop buying something, they\u2019re forced to alter their ways,\u201d clarifies Brown. Needless to say, Brown is both inspired and inspiring, and OIL provides us with a number of bright and spirited options to wear to the next march on Washington. \u00a0\u201cYou have a voice,\u201d Brown exclaims. \u201cUse it!\u201d<\/p>\n

Take a look at the look book below:<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery":false,"settings":{"height":"50","images_to_show":"1","caption":"Images by Anna-Lena Krause, courtesy of OIL."}}],"hero_title":""},"yoast_head":"\nThe Berlin-based brand making politically powerful clothes The Berlin-based brand making politically powerful clothes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/oil-aw18\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Berlin-based brand making politically powerful clothes The Berlin-based brand making politically powerful clothes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/oil-aw18\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-07-13T12:56:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-08-09T09:30:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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