{"product_id":"9781069050809","title":"Swiper","description":"Swiper is an artist’s book chronicling an unlikely sequence of events that unfolded in the summer of 2023:\nAfter going out for drinks with a man named Joshua whom she met on Tinder, 25-year-old New York City\nresident Alexis Dougé spent the night with her date back at her Brooklyn apartment—only to find out the\nnext morning that he had stolen her pair of Tabis. Alexis posted a series of videos on TikTok recounting the\nsituation, which immediately took social media by storm and sparked an Internet-wide craze for the newly\ndubbed “Tabi swiper.”\nThe publication documents the story’s viral reception across social media—stylized in the visual language of\nearly means of Internet-mediated communication such as text-based chat clients and message boards—\nwhile shining a spotlight on the Internet lore surrounding Maison Margiela’s iconic split-toe silhouette.\nEdwin Tran’s Swiper is a 2024 recipient of the Visual Artists: Creation grant from the Toronto Arts Council.\nPublished by flāna flāna books, 68 pages, 4.375 x 7 in., softcover, 2024, ISBN 978-1-0690508-0-9","brand":"flāna flāna books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65529999556957,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781069050809_e027cf05-c918-46ae-b76b-464c13ff5f8f.jpg?v=1788998048","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9781069050809","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}