ANOTHER MAGAZINE
AN INTERVIEW WITH SOPHIE HICKS, FASHION’S ARCHITECT
Interview by Donatien Grau
Portrait by Tim Walker
November 2014
FRAME MAGAZINE
ACNE’S KOREAN FLAGSHIP HOVERS WEIGHTLESSLY AMID AN ASSEMBLY OF CONCRETE AND STEEL
By Shonquis Moreno. Photographs by Annabel Elston. March 2016
Designer Sophie Hicks’ flagship for Stockholm-based fashion brand Acne Studios in Seoul’s Gangnam district sits – gossamer and luminous – in a bed of wild strawberries, crowned with ductwork and lined with concrete. This industrial-ethereal contradiction reflects the area’s identity, as well as the contrast between Acne’s vocal aesthetic (the name of the label could refer to blemishes but is actually a cheeky acronym for the collective’s primary pursuit: Ambition to Create Novel Expressions) and the more retiring aspects of Swedish culture. ‘Sweden is a culture of light and air,’ Hicks writes, one that values ‘modesty and discretion’.
Inside, two floors of concrete poured in rough timber forms float amid – without touching – exterior polycarbonate walls through which daylight difuses onto freestanding steel garment displays. There is no decoration of any sort and no mechanical equipment, the ductwork that might have threaded the interior having been coiled atop the roof. The consonance of a handful of diverse materials – woodgrain-tattooed concrete surfaces and spiral stair, metal cash counter and displays, and glowing polycarbonate walls – vaporizes into an atmosphere of cool warmth. Hicks, with good reason, calls it ‘otherworldly’. — Shonquis Moreno
MAGAZINES
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
By Suzy Menkes
November 17, 2008
NOWNESS
IN RESIDENCE: SOPHIE HICKS
Editor Shelley Jones
Film by Nick Ballon
January 2019
RIKA STUDIOS PAPER
EDITION No.9, SUMMER 2024
Photography by Johnnie Shand Kydd
Interview by Emily King
DETAIL
CENTRAL AND SECLUDED: SOPHIE HICK’S PRIZE-WINNING PRIVATE RESIDENCE
by Edina Obermoser
Photographs by Annabel Elston and Sophie Hicks Architects
January 2020
THE GUARDIAN
AZZEDINE ALAÏA
By Sophie Hicks
April 2018
RIBA JOURNAL
1A EARL’S COURT SQUARE
By RIBA
May 2019
DEZEEN
SOPHIE HICKS CONCEALS “CONCRETE MONSTER”
By Alice Morby
Photography by Annabel Elston
September 2015
MUSE MAGAZINE
CLASSY ACT
By Marta Galli
Photographs by Timur Celikdag
Fall 2008
AMERICAN VOGUE
“THE HOUSE BETWEEN TWO LAKES”: Inside Model Edie Campbell’s Lush Northamptonshire Bolthole
by Ellie Pithers
Photographs by Simon Watson
Styling by Tabitha Simmons
October 2021