Felix Art Fair + Dover Street Market have revealed their lineup of special merchandise curated exclusively for the Los Angeles-based art fair.
The inaugural partnership fuses art, fashion, and design at an unprecedented scale – redefining the traditional art fair experience to seamlessly merge these dynamic industries.
The Felix Art Fair x Dover Street Market collection showcases original collaborations between visual artists and Dover Street Market labels, including Oscar Tuazon x Felix x Comme de Garçons SHIRT, Oscar Tuazon x Felix x Comme de Garçons WALLET, David Hammons x Denim Tears, Sky High Farm Workwear x Nike x KAWS, Sterling Ruby x Vans, Mike Kelley x Brain Dead, ERL x Robert Lazzarini, OTTO 958 x Rocky’s Matcha, OTTO 958 x Levi’s, Total Luxury Spa t-shirts with artists Meriem Bennani, Cyprien Gaillard, Lauren Halsey, Pacoima Techno, and Cauleen Smith, and Parley for the Oceans artist series featuring Julian Schnabel, Doug Aitken, Jenny Holzer, Ed Ruscha, David Lachappelle, and Katherina Grosse. Also available are standalone designs by creatives Kiko Kostadinov, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Susan Nemeth, Rick Owens, and Brett Westfall. Offerings encompass apparel, accessories, and footwear, along with exclusive and limited-quantity co-branded products tailored for Felix Art Fair.
Comme des Garçons’s Black Market, a semi-covert, half-hidden, fly-by-night, transient shop offering exclusive black colored Comme des Garçons collaborations with a wide range of creatives and labels will be showcased through a special installation nestled within Oscar Tuazon’s sculptural intervention. Black Market’s product selection features items from the past and the future of Comme des Garçons, including hoodies, shirts, t-shirts, and accessories, as well as Rei Kawakubo’s highly sought after furniture. Black Market shops emerge infrequently, instead of holding to a specific schedule – this will be the first time the pop-up is available in Los Angeles, and the fourth time it’s available outside of Japan.
Beyond exclusive artist and designer collaborations, limited edition offerings and a selection of signature Dover Street Market brands selling pieces from their SS24 collections will be available for exploration and purchase at the fair, including Comme des Garçons, Comme des Garçons Homme Plus, Comme des Garçons SHIRT, Comme des Garçons x Mikimoto, PLAY Comme des Garçons, BLACK Comme des Garçons, Comme des Garçons WALLET, Comme des Garçons Parfums, Adidas, AIREI, Alaia, Alabaster Industries, Castro, Charles Jeffery, Chopova Lowena, Completedworks, Dimepiece, doublet, Edward Bess, ERL, Heaven, IDEA Books, Jacquemus, Jacques Marie Mage, Jiwinaia, JW Anderson, Kiko Kostadinov, Marc Jacobs, Mature Ha, Melitta Baumeister, Monies, Nike, OTTO 958, Our Legacy, Parley for the Oceans, Purple Magazine, Random Identities, Rocky’s Matcha, sacai, Salomon, Shay, Shihara, Shushu/tong, Simone Rocha, Sky High Farm Workwear, Solange Hotlips, Sophie Buhai, Stephen Jones, Suzanne Kalan, Tom Wood, Undercover Madstore, Undercover x Medicom, Vans, Vaquera, Walter Van Beirendonck, and 13 Lucky Monkey. Also available is a curated selection of books by artist Leonard Koren, courtesy of IDEA. Throughout the fair’s duration, Felix and DSM will release new drops daily.
Together, Felix Art Fair and Dover Street Market have commissioned artist and sculptor Oscar Tuazon to design and build a site-specific structure that will play host to the DSM store inside the hotel’s ballroom. Known for a practice which occupies the liminal space between architecture and activism, Oscar Tuazon works with natural and industrial materials to create installations that can be occupied by or engaged with.
Additionally, to celebrate this partnership, Felix Art Fair and Dover Street Market have collaborated with the groundbreaking creative agency KALEIDOSCOPE on a special zine that will be available for free exclusively to the fair’s visitors. Featuring original photography by Jack Bool and interviews between Al Morán of Felix Art Fair, James Gilchrist of Dover Street Market, and artist Oscar Tuazon, the publication documents the fair, Los Angeles and its culture, the cross-pollination between art and fashion, Oscar Tuazon’s work and his building of the Dover Street Market shop, as well as the limited-edition product available to shop.
SPECIAL PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
Oscar Tuazon x Felix x Comme des Garçons — Rei Kawakubo’s Comme des Garçons SHIRT and WALLET lines have partnered with Oscar Tuazon and Felix LA on a limited edition t-shirt, button down, and wallet.
Sky High Farm Workwear x Nike x KAWS — Sky High Farm Workwear, a mission-led brand built as a means of sustaining and expanding the work of Sky High Farm, a Hudson Valley-based non-profit championing food sovereignty and regenerative agriculture, partners with KAWS to customize existing Nike Life cotton workwear silhouettes and Air Force 1s. KAWS’ interpretation of the brand’s Strawberry+Moon iconography can be seen printed and embroidered throughout the collection.
Mike Kelley x Brain Dead — Spearheaded by Kyle Ng, Brain Dead, both a creative collective and clothing brand, partners with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts to showcase various works by the conceptual artist on t-shirts and a canvas tote bag.
Denim Tears — Artist David Hammons and Denim Tears’ “Air Hammons” Converse mixes Hammons’ African-American Flag to the Marcus Garvey Pan-African Flag, while honoring the Liberty Rock of Tremaine Emory’s hometown in Queens. A limited-edition t-shirt with Hammons’ hand-drawn sketch of the shoe is also available.
Total Luxury Spa Artist Series — Los Angeles wellness forward fashion label Total Luxury Spa presents artist t-shirts and hoodies bearing the signature visual motifs of fine artists including Cauleen Smith, Cyprien Gaillard, Mariem Bennani, Lauren Halsey, and Pacoima Techno.
ERL x Robert Lazzarini — American artist and designer Eli Russell Linnetz, has partnered with acclaimed artist Robert Lazzarini to release a series of exclusive collaborative puzzles for Felix Art Fair. The puzzles – featuring photographs by Linnetz that further explore the themes of American iconography and nostalgia central to his work – are warped in Lazzarini’s signature style, creating a surreal expression of distorted reality that extends from the image to the puzzle itself. Produced in a limited edition of 50, each puzzle will be signed and numbered.
Parley For The Oceans Artist Series — Global environmental organization Parley for the Oceans presents limited edition reusable tote bags made with Ocean Plastic® featuring beloved works by artists such as Julian Schnabel, Doug Aitken, Jenny Holzer, Ed Ruscha, David Lachappelle, and Katherina Grosse.
OTTO 958 x Rocky’s Matcha — The hybrid project OTTO 958, created by Kiko Kostadinov and Morán Morán, partners with Rocky’s Matcha to create a capsule collection featuring crewnecks, t-shirts, hats, and a matcha kit complete with unique ceramic bowls and custom co-branded components.
OTTO 958 x Levi’s – OTTO 958 partners with Levi’s to release their first collaborative project. The OTTO 958 Levi’s® SilverTab™ comes in the brand’s signature green and comes embellished with the “O” logomark on the back ankles in 3D stitched embroidery.
Felix LA, 2024 February 28th- March 3rd 2024, the Hollywood Roosevelt
Oscar Tuazon (b. 1975, Seattle, WA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, and Oil City, WA. Recent institutional solo exhibitions include Oscar Tuazon: Fire Worship at the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2020); Oscar Tuazon: Collaborator at Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA (2019); Oscar Tuazon: Water School at MSU Broad Museum, East Lansing, MI (2019); Oscar Tuazon: Hammer Projects at the Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (2016); Studio at Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2015); and Sensory Spaces 1, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2013). He has been commissioned for numerous public art works including Growth Rings for Central Wharf Park in Boston, MA (2019); a large-scale installation Une colonne d’eau in the Place Vendôme, Paris, France (2017); and Un pont sans fin for Nouveaux Commanditaires, Belfort, France (2016). Tuazon’s work has been exhibited in numerous institutional group exhibitions around the world, among them the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2021); Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, IL (2019); Skulptur Projekte, Münster, Germany (2017); Documenta 14, Athens, Greece (2017); Triennale d’art contemporain de Beaufort, Ostend, Belgium (2015); Whitney Biennial, New York, NY (2012); and the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2011). The artist is represented by Morán Morán in Los Angeles.
