Discovered during a trip to Japan in 2014, this piece is inspired by Boro: a traditional Japanese folk textile. Those fabrics represents two essential principles of Japanese culture; mottainai a term that conveys a deep sense of regret concerning waste and boroboro that celebrates the beauty in something frayed, decaying or repaired, demonstrating a vast esteem for our available resources and labor.
This is the latest addition to the Structural Skin series and was born in response to a commission from Villa Noailles for the 31e Festival International de Mode et de Photographie a Hyères, France.
This new object is based on Structural Skin – a self-produced material made out of leftovers from the leather industry. In this case, the objective was to go a step further and create a flat surface rather than the original leather slats, investigating new potential applications for this innovative material.
Starting from the idea of a visual system for a larger collection, this mirror consists on basic geometrical shapes derived from circles and rectangles. The colours were deliberately not chosen but instead left to the availability of our partner’s remnants; all the raw material used for this piece are offcuts and leftovers from the French fashion house Hermès, atelier petit h.
The British Fashion Council just announced that British designer Kim Jones will be celebrated as a fashion industry Trailblazer at this year’s Fashion Awards in partnership with Swarovski.
This December, Y-3 debuts the Y-3 RAITO RACER, the progressive new sneaker silhouette that embodies the design principles of the Spring/Summer 2019 collection.
Prince + Jacob typically reserve their talents for editorial. This winter, they step away from the camera lens to create a luxury essentials brand called Les Amis Homme.
His name is Moisè Curia: twenty-seven years old, Italian (Calabrian), a boundless passion for Bruce Lee’s son that pushes him to undertake the career as an actor.
For the Givenchy Pre-Fall 2019 collection, artistic director Clare Waight Keller drew on the Greek myth of Icarus, the youth who donned wings of wax and feathers, soared too close to the sun and tumbled into the sea.
Arvi Karvinen and Sergey Bagulin captured by the lens of Paula Latimori and styled by themselves with pieces from Martin Margiela, Acne Studios, Kenzo or Adolfo Dominguez in exclusive for Fucking Young! Online
“The more beautiful the sky, the more hopeless the neighborhood.”
Cover feat. Jhona Burjack at Next Models shot by Kito Muñoz
“And even if we change neighborhoods, cities or countries, we always carry with us that sense of personal transformation that a piece of land, with its buildings, parks, bars, and people, has given us. We are almost certain to hang on to a sense of gratitude and nostalgia for it.”
