SILVA COCO 2026.
Silva Coco is a London-based artist, designer, and creative director whose work spans fashion artefact, publishing, video, and event-based practice. 

She is the founder and editor of Plates of Meat magazine, an independent publication operating across print, film, and live formats to document and provoke contemporary youth culture.

Alongside editorial and video work, her practice includes an ongoing material investigation into footwear and bodily artefacts, using processes such as casting, mark-making, and complex construction to explore repair, identity, and ontological instability. This research-led approach sits in tension with commercial and collaborative projects, allowing experimental making to inform applied design contexts without collapse into branding or spectacle.

SILVA COCO 2026
Silva@silvacoco.com

2025.MONKEY PAW

SILVA COCO
2025.
Footwear

Vegetable Tanned Leather
Black cotton dyed thread
Plaster insert

Vegetable-tanned leather shoes, hand-crafted to render the foot as a hand rather than toes. Titled Monkey Paw, the project draws on evolutionary regression and a return to the ground, using wet-moulded leather to operate as an analogue for skin. The deliberately complex construction foregrounds making as tension, producing an object that sits uneasily between anatomy, tool, and artefact.