THE GLOVE COMPARTMENT II : Red Bleachers

Lez Bag in collaboration with Eve Stainton AW23

The Glove Compartment is a fully functional/dysfunctional object first designed by Mr Lez and Eve Stainton to complement the launch of Impact Driver, a new performance for the ICA, (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) September 2023.

20% of proceeds go directly to support the life saving efforts of The Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza.

Red Bleachers details:

heavy duty suede welding glove with central slit.
50mm silver carabiner
large hand welded and hand cut welded sheet metal plate with IMPACT lettering.
handsewn bleached blue denim for comfort
re-enforced and recycled plastic memento pouch.

Stainton has created 10 unique hand welded metal plates to hang from each Glove Compartment. These plates bear the words IMPACT or DRIVER in Stainton’s hand writing.

Mr Lez has collaged and hand sewn each glove in different fabrics and materials. He has also added what he is calling a memento pouch. A small square which has been cut from clear lez fabric and is designed to house pictures of a beloved someone, a phone number, a tenner, your bank card or a lock of hair. It’s the Victorian locket for the metro dyke who wants to keep their sweetheart crotchside.

Stainton and Lez have deconstructed that much mythologised slice of dyke life, the belt loop and carabiner combination to allow the wearer to still use their carabiner on days when they might not be wearing trousers with belt loops, or maybe they’re wearing pocketless trousers, a skirt, or nada at all and still want to swing their big metal thing.

There’s a hot slit running through the inside of each welding glove, tucked under the sawn-off denim pocket. The slit has been made especially to fit a phone but keep whatever you want in there, you’re the driver.

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