Fabric in Motion
A visual, audio and tactile experience.
Butoh
Spring symbolizes a change of energies, out with the old – in with the new...
The Dance of Darkness
"The dance is rooted in a deep connection with the natural world. Nature is a symbol of a shifting existence, and the transformation and transience of nature and the cycle of the seasons are often incorporated into the 'patterns' of butoh dance."
Why Butoh?
Butoh is energetic
Butoh is crude
Butoh is raw
...Like the Denim
Butoh is expressional
Butoh is emotional
Butoh sometimes flows like the light
...Like the "white", that is fragility
...Like Cotton, (which is The Source)
Denim
With a vision of neutral, universal items in mind, 199144 (premium) items will spread through the seasons not constrained by time, location or fashion trends.
Every item offered is a neutral-gender item.
Black denim was chosen as key source, signifying the key source that is present in each city, this being concrete and asphalt, dark and sturdy, resisting the elements but also accepting them.
Even with all of its lights, the city is a dark place with all the concrete walls and glass of skyscrapers, the streets, the subway lanes.
The raw black denim in all its roughness will start to adapt to each individual, becoming a unique item in fit and color, both being noticeable, but maybe just at the second or third glance.
The offering was presented as a uniform, a Basic Denim Overall Pant and a Basic Denim Jacket – as a layer of the Hybrid Jacket.
Being neutral in color, fit and minimal in (visible) features, items, each in its own right, are envisioned and created as adaptable to each other and additional garments.
Thus serving each individual when creating their looks, a uniform of a sort.
With a utilitarian approach to wardrobe the items are presented as spacey, oversized if you will, a comfortable wear.
199144
Reflective Calli Crewneck
This gender-neutral crew was a first piece in our new 199144 collection. Inspired by Japanese culture and its minimalism and a sense of calm.
With an ambition to be as plain and minimal as possible, it still provides much needed details revealed only by the second or third look, such as the "199144" white embroidered logo on the chest, or the full "Tire Calligraphy" logo in silver on the back, coming fully to life when "attacked" by a force of light, as it is a 3M reflective element.
The black denim pieces juxtaposed with the white on white "maxi-minimal" aesthetics goes perfectly hand in hand with the clean minimal aesthetics.
In this way juxtaposing the cold and the warmth, that are both visual (cold) and on the other hand tactile (warm), so a full experience indeed was provided to the audience which was fully immersed in the offering of both The Space and The Collection through an immersive experience that is a butoh-esque performance as a pinnacle of the evening.