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Looking For Langston

$160.00



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INCLUDES A COMPLIMENTARY
10ml / Pocket Perfume

LOOKING FOR LANGSTON
with ISAAC JULIEN

FILM

»Harlem in bloom, Langston in shadow. Mourning, celebration, and desire held in the same breath.«

Released in 1989, Looking for Langston is Isaac Julien's groundbreaking meditation on Black queer desire and the hidden histories of the Harlem Renaissance. The film explores the private world of Langston Hughes and his contemporaries, revealing the intersections of race, sexuality, and artistic expression in spaces the world was not allowed to see. Created in concert with the film's 30th-anniversary retrospective at Tate Britain (2019), the fragrance translates that intimate darkness—indolic florals opening in secret, the warmth of leather, the trace of bodies in low light.

Texture | BAROQUE, EMBROIDERED, SPARKLY

Character | AMBERY, SPICY, FLORAL


MATERIALS
TRANSPARENT FLORAL, INDOLIC FLORAL, LEATHERY NOTES, MUSK, SPICES


PERFUMER
Yann Vasnier

YEAR
2019

IMPRINT
FÀP Catalogues / Retrospective


SELECT YOUR EDITION VARIANT
Each bottle features artwork and color variations. You may request a color preference at check out.



_
INCLUDES A COMPLIMENTARY
10ml / Pocket Perfume

LOOKING FOR LANGSTON
with ISAAC JULIEN

FILM

»Harlem in bloom, Langston in shadow. Mourning, celebration, and desire held in the same breath.«

Released in 1989, Looking for Langston is Isaac Julien's groundbreaking meditation on Black queer desire and the hidden histories of the Harlem Renaissance. The film explores the private world of Langston Hughes and his contemporaries, revealing the intersections of race, sexuality, and artistic expression in spaces the world was not allowed to see. Created in concert with the film's 30th-anniversary retrospective at Tate Britain (2019), the fragrance translates that intimate darkness—indolic florals opening in secret, the warmth of leather, the trace of bodies in low light.

Texture | BAROQUE, EMBROIDERED, SPARKLY

Character | AMBERY, SPICY, FLORAL


MATERIALS
TRANSPARENT FLORAL, INDOLIC FLORAL, LEATHERY NOTES, MUSK, SPICES


PERFUMER
Yann Vasnier

YEAR
2019

IMPRINT
FÀP Catalogues / Retrospective


SELECT YOUR EDITION VARIANT
Each bottle features artwork and color variations. You may request a color preference at check out.

 
 
 

Issac Julien is an accomplished filmmaker and video installation artist. His multi-screen installations and accompanying photographic works for museums and galleries explore fractured narratives of memory and desire, often uniting elements from dance, painting, sculpture, theater, and music. His 1989 film, Looking for Langston is a poetic treatment of gay black poet Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. His multi-screen installations, A Marvellous Entanglement (2019) traverse a collection of Lina Bo Bardi's most iconic buildings; offering a meditation on the work and legacy of the visionary modernest architect and Ten Thousand Waves (2019) investigates China's ancient past and changing present through interwoven narratives.

www.isaacjulien.com