MOWALOLA Autumn Winter Show 2023
As members of mankind, we are all engaged in a particular conflict not with one another, but rather with the technologies we have created. Tools and infrastructures originally developed to ameliorate our lives have turned on us; rather than masters of our own destinies, we have become but pawns in sinister plots written by machines with motives of their own. Dark Web Mowalolas defiant return to London, the city where the brands journey began offers an exploration of the technoapocalyptic tones that colour contemporary existence; the struggle between mans desire for selfdetermination and the algorithmic strangleholds we find ourselves in. New York the epicentre of capitalism, and the genesis point of the mechanisms that keep it chugging along offers a thematic backdrop. Symbols associated with the Gothamlike sprawl its sports teams, numberplates, cultural institutions, faceless corporation translated to logohacked prints and embellishments across baseball caps, jersey tees and leather b br, br,
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