SC103

Theta is delighted to present Chimera, an exhibition by SC103, the collaboration between New York-based designers and artists Sophie Andes-Gascon and Claire McKinney. This exhibition also serves as the launch of their limited edition book, ‘SC103, September 9, 2022, 9PM, New York’.

SC103 is a multifaceted creative project operating in the broader consciousness as a clothing and accessory label. SC103 presents two collections per year with coverage on Vogue Runway and stockists around the world. Their designs have been exhibited in and entered the permanent collection of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Their work is often characterized by a playful approach to the handmade and inventively tailored, incorporating unconventional materials into garments and accessories that seem to belong to an inviting world never seen before.

The work in Chimera derives from a time of creative development leading up to the formation of a new collection—silhouettes, techniques, material play. Garments, drawings and sculpture denote freeform and meandering paths, where McKinney and Andes-Gascon play, employ instinct, and explore their passions and curiosities.

The pair’s new book contains images from their Spring/Summer 2024 collection, which debuted in September of 2023. Runway stills, process and fitting snapshots, and scans of clothing are aggregated in the label’s signature fashion: a poetics of collage. It was designed in collaboration with Patrick Slack and Benjamin Schwartz, containing photo contributions from: Thomas Slack, Noah Emrich, Andres Altamirano, Martin Tannenbaum, Owen Dodd, Gabriela Cavanagh, Kayhl Cooper, Cub. It is printed in editions of 168 and available for $45 a copy at Theta.

SC103 is a New York-based clothing and accessory label. SC103 was founded in 2019 by Sophie Andes Gascon (b. 1993, Guelph, Ontario) and Claire McKinney (b. 1993, Sacramento, California). Both received a BFA in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. SC103 presents two collections per year with coverage on Vogue Runway. Their work has been exhibited in The Metropolitan Musuem of Art (2021) and Pratt Manhattan Gallery (2024).