ART COMES FIRST
ARTISTIC COLLECTIVE
Artistic expression & cultural craftsmanship For A Redefined Global Style. Founders Sam Lambert and Shaka Maidoh ensure their creative expression extends beyond their base in London, its found in the cultural craftsmanship in the designed garments, products and collaborative pieces worldwide.
The meaning behind A-C-F: Each enterprise branches into different areas of artistic expression:
Art Comes First is an arts collective which houses nine distinctive enterprises. ACF focuses on working alongside talented and independent creatives, charitable organisations, business networking events and consultancy.
Avec Ces Freres represents freedom of expression. It is a Genderfluid clothing brand without restrictions or requirement. This is the true definition of HUMANS-WEAR, independence, liberty and emancipation.
Always Cut First Our world comes first, the ecosystem is important to us. In order to maintain the art of sustainable development within the fashion industry we recreate, reuse materials and redesign. Keeping the art of vintage alive.
Aperture Camera Flash like a time portal that transports our minds from one existing world to another. The audience are free to interpret the art through the gift of imagery.
To document life is to freeze a moment in time.
Associate Creative Friends are ACF collaborators, partners, creative peers, and manufacturers.
Another Creative Force is creative direction in film production, health & nutrition, educational master classes, exclusive collaborations and commercial assignments.
Anti-Capitalist Fashion ACF advocates and supports slow fashion, encouraging lower carbon footprints, slower production schedules and fair working conditions. Our aim is to ensure transparency in our business values.
Ancient Culture Footprint ACF pays homage to historical and cultural traditions from around world inspired by styles of past milieu. Our aim is to retain, incorporate and reintroduced styles of bygone ages whilst maintaining a modern look.
Our creative gift is imbedded in the fabric of roots in our passion, artistic vision and deliverance.
Africa Coming Forward is a non profit organisation. Africa has 54 richly bountiful, natural resourceful countries. Our aim is to continue bridging the gap between Africa and its diaspora.
Educating, developing, establishing opportunities, working with talents and raising awareness.
Art Core Foundation ACF - Art foundation is a place where art meets direction. a foundation planned in the continent for exchange of work between home and diaspora. Call it ACF space training camp, which will host education (creative courses, master class, lectures, skill sharing, workshops), talents (representation, mentorship, community, legal) Space (consultancy, photography studio, residency, gallery, pop up events).
Championing art in their creative expression above all first, they lead a movement of tailored and classic style-driven garments for gentlemen and gentlewomen. Think Saville Row and English sartorialism mixed with British punk and a D.I.Y philosophy.
Art Comes First proposes that this blend of ingredients can become the center of a meta-art form to provide protection, nurture and galvanization for other forms of expression in Art. Photography, Painting, Performance....Any form of expression concerned with alchemical process of transforming the base experience into the more sublime, even divine, alloy stair-steps of a particular man’s independent accession full potential.
SARTOR,
ALCHEMY &
PROGRESSION.
