Rachel Comey x Joan Jonas Spring/Summer 2024 collection

It was an honor to score the latest presentation by designer Rachel Comey, which was a direct celebration of the legendary performance and visual artist Joan Jonas.

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Spring Summer ’24 collection made in celebration of legendary American artist Joan Jonas. Jonas is dedicated to inquiry and storytelling through experimental approaches to performance, video, drawing, sculpture and installation.

Recognized internationally as a multimedia pioneer with a boundary-defying practice, the artist has lived and worked in SoHo NYC blocks away from the Rachel Comey studio and store for 49 years.

In this RC Spring 24 collection, there are both overt and subtle references to themes, materials and symbols from Jonas’s long career. The range of texture and palette are all inspired by Jonas’s environments and ecological subjects. Video stills, line drawings, surface treatments, shapes and ephemera from Joan’s ongoing body of work provided the genesis for textile creation, embellishment, silhouette, and accessory developments.

The RC Spring 24 collection and show are tributes to Jonas but moreover, to all those like her who experience and communicate their worlds with
sensitive body-mind awareness. Several women artists were invited to wear the clothes.

In March 2024 the most comprehensive retrospective of Jonas’ career, spanning 1968 to the present, will open at the Museum of Modern Art and a concurrent exhibition featuring her drawings will be at the Drawing Center, both in New York.

Text by Chelsea Spengemann, Soft Network