Curated Editions: 032c Selfie Sweater
The 032c Selfie Sweater is a provocation by design. Unadorned, yet emblematic, the garment announces its wearer more than itself, subtly referencing a form of cultural intelligence that seduces rather than persuades.
Curated Editions inverts this premise, inviting collaborators to assimilate the sweater’s iconography to their own visual practices. Launched in late 2025, the project is a collaborative testament to 032c Workshop’s storied legacy and a celebration of the immersive possibilities of knitwear as a medium. For the inaugural edition of the series, the 032c Readytowear team invited six textile-based designers and artists—Claudia Skoda, The Other Gods, Andrew Yates, Emma Hasselblad, Diane Gagnoux, and Stephan Goldrajch—to reimagine the 032c Selfie Sweater for a capsule collection consisting solely of one-of-one pieces.
Originally conceived by Readytowear creative director Maria Koch, the Selfie Sweater is a hallmark of 032c Workshop’s identity. Building off the legacy of 032c Magazine—a manual for freedom, research, and creativity—032c Workshop is a platform in the making: a space where the editorial universe of 032c takes physical form through select objects and garments.
Claudia Skoda, Berlin-based knitwear designer
“Avoiding the mainstream has always been my driving force, my luxury is not money, but freedom.” - Claudia Skoda
Claudia Skoda is a heroine of the post-war Berlin underground. Following a brief stint in journalism at Der Tagesspiegel, the artist deeply immersed herself in the Berlin music scene, partying with David Bowie, living with Martin Kippenberger, and famously reworking a scrap of chords she received from Kraftwerk into a proto-techno cult hit.
For Curated Editions, Skoda produced a hand-knit mohair sweater. Made locally in her Berlin atelier, the garment is dyed a pale, fluorescent yellow specifically chosen to activate the red yarn of the 032c logo. The piece features a mirrored and corrected logo—a design flourish that speaks to Skoda’s lifelong commitment to subversion.
THE OTHER GODS, Berlin-based artist duo
The Other Gods is the duo project of multidisciplinary artist Thoas Lindner and fashion designer Lena Voutta. Their collective practice merges art, craft, and performative design, resulting in large-scale woven environments, sculptures, and textiles that embody an ethos of ritual, movement, and transformation. Their large-scale room-sized installations, tapestries, and balaclavas have appeared on the cover of Dapper Dan and more.
For Curated Editions, the pair reimagined the 032c Selfie Sweater through their signature cascading fringe technique. Hand-applied yarns, ranging from merino wool to silk, expand the silhouette into a flowing, tactile composition executed in calibrated lengths. The result is a sculptural sweater that blurs the line between garment and artwork.
Andrew Yates, London-based knitwear designer
A graduate of Central Saint Martins with over seventeen years of experience working in knitwear, Andrew Yates arrived at his practice through familial inheritance. First taught the craft by his grandmother, the artist has continued to explore the medium through working with designers in London, Berlin, and Sydney.
For Curated Editions, Yates took an experimental approach, building the sweater from upcycled yarns that he twisted together to achieve a mouliné-like effect. Dropped stitch laddering and hanging threads create a slightly distressed surface. Yates described the garment’s “vibrating texture” as loosely resembling television static, and its logo—rendered somewhat illegibly—as embodying a “punk energy.”
Emma Hasselblad, Stockholm-based textile artist
Emma Hasselblad is a textile artist based in Stockholm. Her practice centers on handknitting, exploring the craft-mediated relation between body, architecture, history, and material. She often expresses her work in large-scale, dreamlike forms replete with oversized flowers and other botanicals, both real and imagined. She holds an MFA from HDK-Valand in Gothenburg and a BFA from ESMOD Berlin.
For Curated Editions, Emma Hasselblad takes a sculptural approach to the iconic sweater. Working with merino wool and a wool-cotton-poly blend for the applied elements, Hasselblad hand-knitted petals and botanical stamps directly onto the sweater's black base, morphing the garment into a three-dimensional relief. A ruffled collar blooms in concentric rings of yellow, orange, and violet at the neckline. Furry-textured lavender and ivory forms extend across the shoulders and down the sleeves, fraying at the edges into feathery tendrils of multicolor yarn. Leaf-like shapes inspired by the bluebell plant climb the length of the sleeves, transforming the garment into its own quasi-botanical form.
Diane Gagnoux, London-based textile artist
The Paris and London-trained multidisciplinary artist Diane Gaignoux approaches garments as receptacles for the body's emotional and physical registers. Her practice engages textile, sculpture, and image-based mediums, situating clothing as a field that shifts between states of suspension, malleability, and crystallization.
For Curated Editions, Gaignoux reinterprets the sweater through color and surface. Dyes were hand-painted onto the knitted wool-viscose material before washing, then layered with sprayed pigment and fixed—a process that produces gradual color transitions that blur contours across the garment. Shades of soft lilac, pink, and chartreuse bleed into one another, suffusing the garment with a warm psychedelia. The mirrored 032c logo recedes into the sweater’s body in tonal relief, while “Berlin,” rendered in a contrasting yarn, flashes out from the surface.
Stephan Goldrajch, Brussels-based textile artist
Stephan Goldrajch is a Brussels-based artist who employs textiles to weave together ritual, craft, and storytelling. Drawing upon ancestral techniques, communal practices, and the dynamics of public space, he transforms threads into symbolic, poetic compositions rife with fantasy and spirituality. Having exhibited his “textile performances” everywhere from galleries Baronian and Xippas in Brussels, Paris, Geneva, and Montevideo, to town squares and embassies, Goldrajch extends the forms of social connection from which his works are born into new publics.
For Curated Editions, Goldrajch reimagines the sweater as an assemblage. He affixes three-dimensional elements from past crochet paintings to the black sweater, introducing a smiling octopus, a heart-shaped strawberry, and even a toothbrush to the garment. At once imbuing the sweater with a cartoonish absurdity and adding a cast of playful, familiar icons to its surface, the artist treates the garment as a vehicle for 032c’s very own fairytale.
