A simpler time…
For his Fall 2009 collection Jun Takahashi opted out of the usual Paris showing. Instead, he took two models into a forest outside Tokyo in subzero temperatures and photographed them on a silver “runway” consisting of a few Mylar survival blankets laid end to end. The show lasted quite a while given the reduced staff, you can actually see the daylight fading shoot after shoot.
That the girls elegantly withstood the freezing cold for several hours decked only in outfits from the collection was of course the whole point. Building on his work for the Fall 2007 collection, Takahashi borrowed fabrics originally developed for NASA and injected them in his creations, marrying wools and leathers with PCM microcapsules and wind-resistant membranes and turning the garments into technological marvels.
(note: still as perfect)
final home/kosuke tsumura
how to use final home, 1994future beauty: 30 years of japanese fashion
Designed by two recent graduates from London’s Royal College of Art, the Foldboat is, as its name suggests, a foldable boat conceived for enhanced flexibility during your commute/infiltration mission/… Able to carry two people, the boat is made of a single 5mm thick sheet of high density polyethylene plastic and takes about two minutes to put together. Should the worse happen, two water tight flotation devices pretending as pillows will come handy.
The boat comes in two versions, Boat1 aimed at urban environments will fold to a third of its size while Boat2 will simply flatten to a 2,50mx1,50m sheet.
Umbro x Aitor Throup A.R.P. 3XDRY Ramsey Jacket
As much as I like having Aitor Throup designed stuff within reach of my budget, those collabs always seem to fall a bit short of expectations. That’s not to say it doesn’t look nice.
Klättermusen…Kevlar softshells. Shit just got real.
I got one on its way. The name’s Mithril, nuff said.
