COLLECTION 02 : Formulaic Expressions

REFERENCING PLAYTIME (JACQUES TATI, 1967) REPRESENTS LIFE WITHIN A MAZE OF FICTIONAL PARISIAN MODERN ARCHITECTURE. FOCUSING ON REDEFINING THE CORE OF WORKING ATTIRE: COATS, CHORE JACKETS, DENIM, AND SHIRTS. THE FOUNDATIONAL ITEMS THAT STRUCTURE OUR ROUTINES IN THIS MODERN, ORDINARY LIFE. A FAMILIAR ARCHETYPE OF CLOTHES WE TRIED TO UNDERSTAND WHY THEY PERSIST.

GARMENTS WERE DEVELOPED THROUGH A COHESIVE TECHNIQUE OF CREATING STRUCTURE AND SILHOUETTE USING DIFFERENT MEDIUMS — FROM PATTERN MANIPULATION TO WORKING WITH THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE FABRIC ITSELF, EACH PIECE ARRIVES AT ITS SILHOUETTE THROUGH THE MATERIAL RATHER THAN DESPITE IT.

THE COLLECTION ALSO RAISES A QUESTION OF HOW PERSONA CAN BE EXPRESSED THROUGH GARMENT TREATMENT. WORKING WITH VARIOUS MEANS OF FINISHING — FROM BIO-WASHING TO HAND DISTRESSING, COMBINED WITH FABRICS THAT ALLOW PATINA AND AGE TO SURFACE OVER TIME — THE GARMENT REFLECTS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN WORN AND CAREFULLY TENDED TO.

COLLECTION 02 CAPTURES ESSENCE OF WARDROBE FOUNDATION, AND ABOUT WHAT YOUR WARDROBE FOUNDATION CONCEALS.

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