1ST REMEMBRANCE YEAR VIRGIL ABLOH

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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

BEKLEIDUNGSWERKE

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Clothing works + Hot War = Pure performance

Germany’s tailoring and textile industries used to be world class – especially their engineering. And the way people dressed. Yep, the personalities from way back then are what we’re missing today. In-depth anatomy studies and life drawings were paramount in producing patterns of mathematical accuracy. These clothing items are still copied today. And let’s not even start on military clothing. Today, Germany’s clothing industry has lost it. They don’t want to get their fingers dirty, I guess. What’s that you ask? What are all those sewing machines for? A man at a Singer sewing machine is like a woman on a Harley Davidson? Sneers like that only prove just who’s responsible for the decline of tailoring and for its dusty image. When people like that try to talk tailoring to me, I take the greatest pleasure in reducing them to matchwood. The finest German machines and the tailoring heritage were sold abroad for a pittance. Generation after generation abandoned the art of tailoring. The catastrophic result? Tailors that look like accountants. Not a spark of fashion awareness anywhere you look. But don’t you worry – all your agencies will be bankrupt soon enough.

Advertising agencies + hot air = earning your money.

Photography by Florian Deventer

Clothing works + Hot War = Pure performance

Germany’s tailoring and textile industries used to be world class – especially their engineering. And the way people dressed. Yep, the personalities from way back then are what we’re missing today. In-depth anatomy studies and life drawings were paramount in producing patterns of mathematical accuracy. These clothing items are still copied today. And let’s not even start on military clothing. Today, Germany’s clothing industry has lost it. They don’t want to get their fingers dirty, I guess. What’s that you ask? What are all those sewing machines for? A man at a Singer sewing machine is like a woman on a Harley Davidson? Sneers like that only prove just who’s responsible for the decline of tailoring and for its dusty image. When people like that try to talk tailoring to me, I take the greatest pleasure in reducing them to matchwood. The finest German machines and the tailoring heritage were sold abroad for a pittance. Generation after generation abandoned the art of tailoring. The catastrophic result? Tailors that look like accountants. Not a spark of fashion awareness anywhere you look. But don’t you worry – all your agencies will be bankrupt soon enough.

Advertising agencies + hot air = earning your money.

Photography by Florian Deventer