Interview

Collier Schorr for Tim Hamilton

There is a certain softness to Collier Schorr's ongoing, often archival-looking portraits of men in military and athletic scenes—something that doesn't necessarily have to do with the artist's gender, and which has more to do with the timelessness of the image, and the generosity of imagination it inspires. Likewise Tim Hamilton's menswear, which integrates archetypal masculine shapes, fabrics, and details with luxurious period references. A good match then, you could say, for Hamilton's men's presentation this part Saturday, where Schorr debuted two videos produced in collaboration with Industrial Color and Stella Artois. They left much to the imagination, you could say, and consisted almost exclusively of toung men climbing rope in Hamilton's clothing.

Schorr didn't shy from metaphorical or universal interpretations of the video, describing them as, "Young men pushing themselves to new heights, an opening of one physicality to a metaphysical space—bravery, together." They're videos about the spaced occupied by clothing, in between the body and an object—here under high tension and deliberate constraint. "I think he clothes are about keeping contact with a moving figure."