Nadine Nakanishi, who grew up in Graubunden, Switzerland, is a production artist at the Reader. She’s wearing one of a series of sweaters she’s been embroidering.
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This is the “bi bim bop is the cousin of hip-hop.” You know how there’s like dairy, vegetables, fruit? Well, this is like there’s coats, horchata sweaters, pants, shoes. It’s like its own clothes group. They’re horchata sweaters, bi bim bop sweaters, tofu sweaters.
I just got all these old clothes from my mom sent to me from Switzerland, which I didn’t want anymore, and I couldn’t buy any new clothes and stuff, so I just kinda wanted to recycle them–like a clothing swap with your own clothes but it takes a little more work. Anyway, at the same time I discovered horchata–I was kind of obsessed with it for a while–and then I made the horchata sweater. All the rest came out of the horchata sweater.
Do you have any plans for future sweaters?
