WHITELIES INDEX
THE OPEN FOLD
WHITELIES INDEX is an ongoing print series striding on the line between contemporary publication and archive. In the mindset of a research paper we present the works of artists, photographers and archival images—creating a dialogue that invites to explore the beauty found at the intersection of fashion and culture. The publication is thought of as a long term project creating a reference point for artists, fashion designers and creatives to look into in search of inspiration.
What unfolds in this first book publication of WHITELIES STUDIO is a conversation with a place, about a place, and with the people shaped by it. At the heart of this dialogue stands the West Lake in Hangzhou—a city where tradition and modernity walk side by side. The CHANEL MDA Show was staged here in December 2024—not merely as a runway event—but as a sensory and environmental composition. Beneath Hangzhou’s surface of high-speed rail lines and seamless connectivity lies a slower rhythm, one where culture has not only been preserved but continues to breathe. Like an Open Fold, this encounter reveals the surfaces we touch—creases as paths, impressions as memories—offering a shared space between exposure and reflection.
The first edition of WHITELIES INDEX brings together four artists in a shared encounter with that rhythm, exploring how this landscape informs and transforms our practice. As with everything WHITELIES has stood for as a magazine in the past, this first book publication under our new direction has a visual and cultural exchange at its heart—a multi-layered conversation between artists and landscapes, between the tangible and the invisible. Between reality and a dream. WHITELIES INDEX is recorded in the German National Bibliography by the German National Library.
WHITELIES INDEX — THE OPEN FOLD
Publisher: WHITELIES STUDIO
Release: 2025
Format: 20 × 26.6 cm
Volume: 128 pages
Language: English
Printer: KOPA, Lithuania
ISBN: 978-3-00-082693-1
Price: €30.–
Available at the WHITELIES ONLINE SHOP and in selected bookstores worldwide.
