299 792 458 m/s Issue No. II: The Overworked Body

299 792 458 m/s is a magazine by David Lieske and Rob Kulisek. This issue is guest-edited by Matthew Linde and features a BLESS N.61 swimmingtogether look book inside.  Situating itself in between a historic fashion magazine and a classic exhibition catalogue, “The Overworked Body Issue” extends the exhibition “The Overworked Body - An Anthology of 2000s Dress” curated by Matthew Linde at Mathew Gallery and MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 and it’s central question: “How to define a recent history of fashion?” An international cast of photographers, models and stylists contributed to the issue through fashion editorials and conceptual advertisements, staging and re-interpreting milestones in 2000s fashion, using a pool of nearly 300 garments that were collected for the exhibition. Also inserted is a new parasitic look book by BLESS for N.61 swimmingtogether.Commissioned essays for the issue by Philipp Ekardt, Laura Gardner, Francesca Granata and Ulrich Lehmann (bi