November 28th 2022 – Virgil Abloh died exactly one year ago today. hamansutra’s showcase 2017 – 2022 with Louis Vuitton and Off White.
No risk, nothing new – as I always say at my meetings. Put your trust in the creative ones. As Alexander McQueen famously said, “give me time and i’ll give you a revolution”. Amazing how our designs keep bearing fruit after many years and step into official favour. Virgil Abloh, we were delighted you liked the Helmet design that creates eyewear inspired by the safety mesh of a football helmet.
Photography by Ben Awin for Hypebeast
November 28th 2022 – Virgil Abloh died exactly one year ago today. hamansutra’s showcase 2017 – 2022 with Louis Vuitton and Off White.
No risk, nothing new – as I always say at my meetings. Put your trust in the creative ones. As Alexander McQueen famously said, “give me time and i’ll give you a revolution”. Amazing how our designs keep bearing fruit after many years and step into official favour. Virgil Abloh, we were delighted you liked the Helmet design that creates eyewear inspired by the safety mesh of a football helmet.
Photography by Ben Awin for Hypebeast
CAZAL 951 . MEMORY OF CARI ZALLONI
CAZAL 951 . IN MEMORY OF CARI ZALLONI . 5TH REMEMBRANCE YEAR
In 2013 a presentation with eyewear designers was planned in New York and because I was working with Cazal as creative partner and in Special Marketing and Sales at the time, I was asked to redesign the Cazal 951. I had always wanted to continue updating the design of the Cazal 951 – it’s so much more than eyewear, and I’m familiar in depth with all of the details and all the sources of inspiration that Cari Zalloni had drawn on. When I presented my designs and ideas to the then owner of Cazal in Passau, Germany, he had to laugh when he saw one of my ideas; he recalled Cari Zalloni coming up with exactly the same idea in the 80s and putting it on hold because it was too difficult to realize. He might also have been persuaded to leave it be, under the “no such thing as can’t” philosophy that rules among designers. And now it’s official: Cari, this one’s for you, 32 years on. This is your design, updated by me and implemented as a simulation. Rest in Paradise good old friend. (*1937-2012)
*This shoot was made with love and is not sponsored, endorsed or otherwise approved by the Cazal eyewear company or his estate.
CAZAL 951 . IN MEMORY OF CARI ZALLONI . 5TH REMEMBRANCE YEAR
In 2013 a presentation with eyewear designers was planned in New York and because I was working with Cazal as creative partner and in Special Marketing and Sales at the time, I was asked to redesign the Cazal 951. I had always wanted to continue updating the design of the Cazal 951 – it’s so much more than eyewear, and I’m familiar in depth with all of the details and all the sources of inspiration that Cari Zalloni had drawn on. When I presented my designs and ideas to the then owner of Cazal in Passau, Germany, he had to laugh when he saw one of my ideas; he recalled Cari Zalloni coming up with exactly the same idea in the 80s and putting it on hold because it was too difficult to realize. He might also have been persuaded to leave it be, under the “no such thing as can’t” philosophy that rules among designers. And now it’s official: Cari, this one’s for you, 32 years on. This is your design, updated by me and implemented as a simulation. Rest in Paradise good old friend. (*1937-2012)
*This shoot was made with love and is not sponsored, endorsed or otherwise approved by the Cazal eyewear company or his estate.
