Type 1 WW2 Jacket: Original / Updated by hamansutra
The jacket was a World War II unisex style, designed specifically to reduce material usage. This Japanese Denim Special Edition is styled with a lanyard of a type worn by the German Army (Bundeswehr) on ceremonial occasions. I worked for the German Army in their textile workshop. The ideas I saw there live on in my work.
Created Exclusively on Union Special Machines
Made in Germany from Japanese Denim
Available on QUICKSHOP.NYC
Type 1 WW2 Jacket: Original / Updated by hamansutra
The jacket was a World War II unisex style, designed specifically to reduce material usage. This Japanese Denim Special Edition is styled with a lanyard of a type worn by the German Army (Bundeswehr) on ceremonial occasions. I worked for the German Army in their textile workshop. The ideas I saw there live on in my work.
Created Exclusively on Union Special Machines
Made in Germany from Japanese Denim
Available on QUICKSHOP.NYC
HULK JEANS 60TH ANNIVERSARY
60 YEARS OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK (1962 – 2022)
A new side to a true story – The Incredible Hulk in denim: Absolutely unrippable – a new pair if they rip
hamansutra’s been working on an idea for Marvel and proudly presents “HULK JEANS”, the pants that never rip. “Bruce Banner turns into The Incredible Hulk, but his clothing doesn’t rip.” The highlights of all the Hulk movies, and particularly of the 1977 TV series, were the points when Hulk ripped his clothes to shreds as he transformed. This is where hamansutra make a sly change to the narrative – because his Hulk would wear denim that DOESN’T rip. It’s luxury segment, limited edition, in specific stores only, and excluded from sale/special offers. Made in Germany from 16oz Japanese Denim.
Thanks to Disney’s Marvel Unit Company
Available as a limited run.
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© 100% hamansutra
60 YEARS OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK (1962 – 2022)
A new side to a true story – The Incredible Hulk in denim: Absolutely unrippable – a new pair if they rip
hamansutra’s been working on an idea for Marvel and proudly presents “HULK JEANS”, the pants that never rip. “Bruce Banner turns into The Incredible Hulk, but his clothing doesn’t rip.” The highlights of all the Hulk movies, and particularly of the 1977 TV series, were the points when Hulk ripped his clothes to shreds as he transformed. This is where hamansutra make a sly change to the narrative – because his Hulk would wear denim that DOESN’T rip. It’s luxury segment, limited edition, in specific stores only, and excluded from sale/special offers. Made in Germany from 16oz Japanese Denim.
Thanks to Disney’s Marvel Unit Company
Available as a limited run.
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© 100% hamansutra
RAIMER BRADT STORE
hamansutra’s Denim collection will be available exclusively in September 2023 at Raimar Bradt Store in Fürth, Germany.
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RAIMARBRADT.DE
hamansutra’s Denim collection will be available exclusively in September 2023 at Raimar Bradt Store in Fürth, Germany.
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RAIMARBRADT.DE
CATALOG RTW 2023
THE LONE SOLDIER BY HAMANSUTRA
RTW 2022/2023
HAMANSUTRA’S Workwear line features US and German Army clothing from the 30s to 70s – the Holy Grail, like US Army Shirts, M-65 Jacket, Tote Bag, US Army Coverall, Type 1 Jacket in Denim Blue and so on. It could be described as “reexamined clothing to replicate original deadstock models” or, as I often quote, “Originals – Updated”. Designs that have had minor changes that bring them bang up to date for our contemporary age. Hamansutra clothing proudly bears Union Special Machines labels to showcase its exclusive manufacture on Union Special Machines.
Bekleidungswerke
Master tailor in the technical construction of clothing.
Available on QUICKSHOP.NYC
Photography Jan Frommel
THE LONE SOLDIER BY HAMANSUTRA
RTW 2022/2023
HAMANSUTRA’S Workwear line features US and German Army clothing from the 30s to 70s – the Holy Grail, like US Army Shirts, M-65 Jacket, Tote Bag, US Army Coverall, Type 1 Jacket in Denim Blue and so on. It could be described as “reexamined clothing to replicate original deadstock models” or, as I often quote, “Originals – Updated”. Designs that have had minor changes that bring them bang up to date for our contemporary age. Hamansutra clothing proudly bears Union Special Machines labels to showcase its exclusive manufacture on Union Special Machines.
Bekleidungswerke
Master tailor in the technical construction of clothing.
Available on QUICKSHOP.NYC
Photography Jan Frommel
RTW 2023 CAMPAIGN
THE LONE SOLDIER
RTW 2022/2023
In the 1980s I was obsessed by the Lone Ranger cartoon series. For me, he was up there with the greatest Marvel heroes. My everything. I turned “The Lone Ranger” into “The Lone Soldier”. The name says it all. The only soldier who pours all his might into making his ideas become reality and protecting them – always alert for confrontation.
Photography
Florian Deventer
THE LONE SOLDIER
RTW 2022/2023
In the 1980s I was obsessed by the Lone Ranger cartoon series. For me, he was up there with the greatest Marvel heroes. My everything. I turned “The Lone Ranger” into “The Lone Soldier”. The name says it all. The only soldier who pours all his might into making his ideas become reality and protecting them – always alert for confrontation.
Photography
Florian Deventer
BAVARIAN PANTS
Bavarian Pants from 1796 / Originals / Updated by hamansutra.
This is what Levi Strauss was probably wearing as a kid before he moved to the USA. All my patterns are tailored to modern body shapes and carefully modified. I always recommend buying 2 at once. Really durable, they make it so easy to pack a suitcase. White shirts, boots and denim. I’ve always been fascinated by basic clothing, clothes for life. Note that all my clothing comes with washing instructions. Labels made out of calf leather and Cooper Buttons from Paris. The denim was produced by an Italian textile weaver, transforming finest old cotton into new upcycled denim fabric. Our products are made by the best specialist manufacturers.
Made in Germany from Italian Denim and Created Exclusively on Union Special Machines.
Available on QUICKSHOP.NYC
Bavarian Pants from 1796 / Originals / Updated by hamansutra.
This is what Levi Strauss was probably wearing as a kid before he moved to the USA. All my patterns are tailored to modern body shapes and carefully modified. I always recommend buying 2 at once. Really durable, they make it so easy to pack a suitcase. White shirts, boots and denim. I’ve always been fascinated by basic clothing, clothes for life. Note that all my clothing comes with washing instructions. Labels made out of calf leather and Cooper Buttons from Paris. The denim was produced by an Italian textile weaver, transforming finest old cotton into new upcycled denim fabric. Our products are made by the best specialist manufacturers.
Made in Germany from Italian Denim and Created Exclusively on Union Special Machines.
Available on QUICKSHOP.NYC
Long Live The McQueen
“When I gave Alexander McQueen my pants”
After 9/11 2001, hamansutra met Alexander McQueen for an interview in London. The two women there as showroom managers were pretty unfriendly, and one of them even mocked haman’s British English street slang. Lee McQueen had been on the lookout for classic tailors able to perform tasks like hand-stitching eyelet buttonholes. But there was nothing free for the 22-year-old haman and they never worked together. And yet McQueen told haman, “We’re the same. Creative. I can see it in your sketchbooks.” Lee Alexander McQueen accepted haman’s German military pants and original sketch as a gift, with a hand-written dedication. Haman had the pants for a long time, good quality industrial manufacture, cheap, not trendy, a German-made product. The quality used to be better, but production moved abroad after the Second World War. A picture showing Lee Alexander McQueen actually wearing the military pants in his studio, has now been used for the cover of “Alexander McQueen – The Life and the Legacy” by Judith Watt, a globally published examination of the designer. The location of the picture was Amwell Street, London, near Angel in Islington, where McQueen lived within walking distance of his studio. Central St Martins College from the late 90s to 2010 was Alexander McQueen’s best time. If he were alive today he would still be the Number One. He went his own way and had his associates, who brought him up but also dragged him down – like the corporation that owned 51% of his company. The deaths of Isabella Blow and his mother were bitter blows; he was also under pressure from Gucci Group to deliver more commercial designs. A hoodie with the McQueen logo? Never! And yet he was an irreplaceable role model to us as St. Martins graduates. He shaped and formed us; we grew up surrounded by his superhuman energy and took on the responsibility and the pressure to match his quality, imposed by the same college and tutors. After his death in 2010 hamansutra decided to delete all his social media accounts. The news was like a physical blow, it caused complete numbness. Sometimes you wonder how people like that got to be so good – but take Alexander McQueen: I know that after CSM closed every day, he would hide under the tables in the pattern room to carry on working on his collection at night. It’s pretty sad that nobody can respect Alexander McQueen’s wishes and close the house. People and Gucci Group should have respected his wishes. They are too money hungry to care! Sad that creativity and industry can’t walk together for long. However, Lee McQueen made you dream, made you hopeful, made you love life…made you love fashion…he made us love art. His death was the culmination of his art. Rest in Paradise, brother.
Re-issue of the German Military Pants / Updated by Hamansutra
Available in 2020 at quickshop.nyc
10TH REMEMBRANCE YEAR
IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
(* 1969 – 2010)
Lee Alexander Mcqueen
alexandermcqueen.com
Photography
derricksantini.com
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“When I gave Alexander McQueen my pants”
After 9/11 2001, hamansutra met Alexander McQueen for an interview in London. The two women there as showroom managers were pretty unfriendly, and one of them even mocked haman’s British English street slang. Lee McQueen had been on the lookout for classic tailors able to perform tasks like hand-stitching eyelet buttonholes. But there was nothing free for the 22-year-old haman and they never worked together. And yet McQueen told haman, “We’re the same. Creative. I can see it in your sketchbooks.” Lee Alexander McQueen accepted haman’s German military pants and original sketch as a gift, with a hand-written dedication. Haman had the pants for a long time, good quality industrial manufacture, cheap, not trendy, a German-made product. The quality used to be better, but production moved abroad after the Second World War. A picture showing Lee Alexander McQueen actually wearing the military pants in his studio, has now been used for the cover of “Alexander McQueen – The Life and the Legacy” by Judith Watt, a globally published examination of the designer. The location of the picture was Amwell Street, London, near Angel in Islington, where McQueen lived within walking distance of his studio. Central St Martins College from the late 90s to 2010 was Alexander McQueen’s best time. If he were alive today he would still be the Number One. He went his own way and had his associates, who brought him up but also dragged him down – like the corporation that owned 51% of his company. The deaths of Isabella Blow and his mother were bitter blows; he was also under pressure from Gucci Group to deliver more commercial designs. A hoodie with the McQueen logo? Never! And yet he was an irreplaceable role model to us as St. Martins graduates. He shaped and formed us; we grew up surrounded by his superhuman energy and took on the responsibility and the pressure to match his quality, imposed by the same college and tutors. After his death in 2010 hamansutra decided to delete all his social media accounts. The news was like a physical blow, it caused complete numbness. Sometimes you wonder how people like that got to be so good – but take Alexander McQueen: I know that after CSM closed every day, he would hide under the tables in the pattern room to carry on working on his collection at night. It’s pretty sad that nobody can respect Alexander McQueen’s wishes and close the house. People and Gucci Group should have respected his wishes. They are too money hungry to care! Sad that creativity and industry can’t walk together for long. However, Lee McQueen made you dream, made you hopeful, made you love life…made you love fashion…he made us love art. His death was the culmination of his art. Rest in Paradise, brother.
Re-issue of the German Military Pants / Updated by Hamansutra
Available in 2020 at quickshop.nyc
10TH REMEMBRANCE YEAR
IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
(* 1969 – 2010)
Lee Alexander Mcqueen
alexandermcqueen.com
Photography
derricksantini.com
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CHOCOLATE BY HAMANSUTRA
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Haman Alimardani comes from the third generation of a Persian family of chefs, restaurateurs and gourmets. He launched his hamansutra fashion label in 1996. On a visit to Berlin he was intrigued to discover a chocolate factory and store that echoed his own first name – Erich Hamann Schokolade – Since 1912. Haman meets Hamann! He soon found that the company was an authentic, down-to-earth operation with a philosophy that prized quality and craftsmanship above all else. Old-fashioned by today’s fast-paced, bigger-is-better standards? Perhaps. But also redolent with history and tradition. And, incidentally, it tasted fantastic! Haman immediately identified parallels with his own fashion label, hamansutra. His workshop, which he calls “Bekleidungswerke” or “clothing works“, is a manufacturing centre equipped with a formidable array of vintage sewing machines that are battered, yet still going strong. At its heart is Haman as the mechanic, the master tailor in technical clothing construction, and the Design Director. Quality outlasts even the biggest global trends, and quality is never on sale. Conventional fashion labels are always confronted with the need to appeal to “taste” – but hamansutra’s chocolate appeals to the tastes of dedicated non-followers of fashion everywhere.
“Because taste is about knowledge.”
Enjoy the Planet Soul.
Yours truly,
Erich Hamann & hamansutra
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Haman Alimardani comes from the third generation of a Persian family of chefs, restaurateurs and gourmets. He launched his hamansutra fashion label in 1996. On a visit to Berlin he was intrigued to discover a chocolate factory and store that echoed his own first name – Erich Hamann Schokolade – Since 1912. Haman meets Hamann! He soon found that the company was an authentic, down-to-earth operation with a philosophy that prized quality and craftsmanship above all else. Old-fashioned by today’s fast-paced, bigger-is-better standards? Perhaps. But also redolent with history and tradition. And, incidentally, it tasted fantastic! Haman immediately identified parallels with his own fashion label, hamansutra. His workshop, which he calls “Bekleidungswerke” or “clothing works“, is a manufacturing centre equipped with a formidable array of vintage sewing machines that are battered, yet still going strong. At its heart is Haman as the mechanic, the master tailor in technical clothing construction, and the Design Director. Quality outlasts even the biggest global trends, and quality is never on sale. Conventional fashion labels are always confronted with the need to appeal to “taste” – but hamansutra’s chocolate appeals to the tastes of dedicated non-followers of fashion everywhere.
“Because taste is about knowledge.”
Enjoy the Planet Soul.
Yours truly,
Erich Hamann & hamansutra
