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The shoot features cameos by \u003cstrong\u003eKIM KARDASHIAN WEST\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eKHLOÉ KARDASHIAN\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAMINA BLUE\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTRAVIS SCOTT\u003c\/strong\u003e, and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At the time we started collaborating, everything in the world of art and fashion was polished. Everything was smooth, so we felt that Prada must be rough.” For the past decade, a windowless concrete hall at the \u003cstrong\u003ePRADA\u003c\/strong\u003e headquarters has become an architectural gymnasium for \u003cstrong\u003eREM KOOLHAAS\u003c\/strong\u003e and his firm \u003cstrong\u003eOMA\/AMO\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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Furnished with smoke machines, sleeping bags, razors, and bongs, the three-act immersive opera is a training camp for the denizens of hyper-capitalism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFounded as sneaker blogs in 2005, \u003cstrong\u003eHYPEBEAST\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eHIGHSNOBIETY\u003c\/strong\u003e have grown into large and disruptive forces in fashion. Simultaneously fuelling and gorging on a new generation’s appetite for content, they have set a rabid pace that has multinational brands following suit. Travelling up the feed and towards “the heart of content,” 032c’s Thom Bettridge and photographer Lukas Wassmann visit the companies’ respective HQs in Hong Kong and Berlin to suss out what this revolution spells for the landscape of media at large. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the “\u003cstrong\u003eSSENSE\u003c\/strong\u003e Files,” we present scenes of cross-platform madness from our work at ssense.com. 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