Book Launch
Chicks On Speed (COS) are Melissa Logan (from New York),
Kiki Moorse (from Munich) and Alex Murray-Leslie (from Bowral, Australia).
They’re also a band, a clothing label, a website, a record label, a design team
and a twenty-first-century phenomenon.
The girls met while running a drinking den at art school in
Munich. They moved to Berlin, where low rents are attracting unprecedented
numbers of young creatives. There they reinvented themselves as Chicks On
Speed, an all-girl collective, who, while relishing their amateur status in
various creative fields, are fearlessly “putting it out there”.
From providing a raunchy, cover-version soundtrack to
parties and gigs, to customising visitors clothing at exhibitions (Foundation
Cartier) to posing with Karl Lagerfeld for the cover of their latest album, the
Chicks have invaded the worlds of fashion and music with their endearing D-I-Y
aesthetic and good-time vibe. Now they’re being taken seriously by these
mega-industries; COS are both muse and rebel!
This, their first publication, aims to capture that sense of
freedom and spontaneity. The book is divided into periods of their lives: ‘Fake
Band’, ‘Pressing the Press’, ‘Sell Out’, ‘Temporary Spaces’, ‘Modifidas’
(imaginary products), ‘We Don’t Play Guitars’, ‘Class War’, ‘Consuming Passion’
and ‘Heaven or Hell or Just The End’. Die-cut, over-printed and assembled from
many different stocks, this book approximates a COS scrapbook, full of
press-clippings, personal mementos and ideas, printed ephemera and free COS
merchandise.
