Juicy Couture
Oct 11, 2019
4 minutes
Words Daniel Bevis
Photography
Simmy
modern modifying scene, that goes without saying. Indeed, that’s not just true today, but has been for generations – race cars have always run lower than road cars because a lower centre of gravity brings huge handling benefits, and it doesn’t take a genius to spot that lower cars just look better, hence the motorsport tech finding its way onto the road. Refract this logic through an absurd filter and find yourself in the Chicano lowrider culture of the 1960s. And while Citroëns have been rising up and down at the flick of a switch since the sixties thanks to their clever hydropneumatics, it’s air-ride that’s the darling of today’s show scene: technology whose origins date back to the
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