TYB
The sneaker drop (3151) never got enough attention.
I get the Britney Spears thing and why that takes attention, but WTF w/the sneakers?
If you follow my graphic, i seem to tie it to the Royal College of Art.
Maybe "Royal" is the only relevant thing, but I don't thinks so.
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1989187573437100234/photo/1
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1989187573437100234
>horrified
>reminder
Yes - i was just thinking there's more ..this is the BRAVE a.i. write up on the sneaker artist…
i could never find anything particularly damning about her…the "best" i got was the other guy…if you look close at those other images in red squares.
https://fonswelters.nl/artists/tenant-of-culture-85223afc/
https://search.brave.com/search?q=tenant+of+culture&summary=1&conversation=37d4441f89f70897e5fc55
Tenant of Culture is the artistic practice of Hendrickje Schimmel, a Dutch artist born in 1990 in Arnhem, Netherlands, who lives and works in London, UK.
She holds a BA in Fashion Design from ArtEZ School of the Arts, Arnhem, and an MA in Textiles from the Royal College of Art, London.
Operating under the name Tenant of Culture, Schimmel critically examines the ideological frameworks, power structures, and social relations embedded within the production, circulation, and marketing of apparel by deconstructing and reassembling manufactured garments.
Her work uses materials sourced from various stages of the garment production cycle, including secondhand clothing, thrift stores, eBay, and refuse, transforming discarded items into new forms through sculpture, installation, and garment-making.
The name "Tenant of Culture" is a conceptual play on the fashion house (Maison) and draws from the writings of Michel de Certeau, who uses the term "tenant" to describe an active consumer who collaborates with producers, challenging the hierarchy between producer and consumer.
Schimmel's practice interrogates the performative aspects of fashion under capitalism, questioning the monetization of ideology and the environmental rhetoric surrounding recycling, which she views as often exploited for virtue signaling.
Her work suggests a cyclical process of transformation, where materials are continually restructured to critique overproduction and consumer culture.
Schimmel's practice has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions globally, including at the Fries Museum (Leeuwarden), Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem), Centraal Museum Utrecht, Le Fondation Cartier (Paris), and the Royal College of Art.
Recent exhibitions include "Ladder" at Soft Opening, London (2023), which explored destruction in fashion through three series: Haul, Drawn, and Sabotage in Acrylic, referencing historical and contemporary themes of sabotage and aestheticized decay.
She was also included in the exhibition "Post-digital Intimacy" at the National Gallery Prague in 2025.
Her work is held in institutional collections such as the Fries Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and The Pier Arts Centre Orkney.
In 2020, Soft Opening published her first monograph, which won the Swiss Most Beautiful Books Award.