On this episode we host Aitor Throup, one of the most innovative menswear designers who has conceptualized menswear like no other. We discuss his meteoric rise, the difficulty of translating conceptual fashion into a ready-to-wear proposition, his stints at Stone Island and C.P. Company, designing a uniform for the English national football team at the…
This feature article was initially published in the fourth print volume of StyleZeitgeist magazine in 2013. We are publishing it online for the first time to coincide with the release of our podcast episode with Aitor Throup. I London – A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, at least in fashion terms,…
In this episode Eugene talks with Sam Lobban, the VP of designer mens and womens at Nordstrom, about his love of fashion.
Yesterday the Dutch denim company G-Star RAW announced the appointment of one of our favorite conceptual designers Aitor Throup as its Executive Creative Director. The designer has been consulting for the company for some time now, presumably with enough success to warrant a full time upgrade. After initial eyebrow raising the appointment has come to make sense. While the G-Star aesthetic leaves much to be desired, it has exactly the kind of construction and fabric know-how that Throup might take advantage of in order to create something interesting outside of his previous conceptual flights of fancy, which have been both creatively mind-blowing and mind-blowingly unattainable. In any case, I am curious to see what will happen, and I would like to share with you our in-depth profile of Throup that I wrote for our print volume 4, in which Throup makes clear that he would be interested to translate his creative vision and formidable design skills into something more accessible.
We would like to present to you Aitor Throup’s New Object Research Spring / Summer Men’s collection, The Rite of Spring. Manifesto below: This is a self-portrait. I have spent almost 15 years of my life crafting a creative ego which I feel was subconsciously necessary to protect me from judgement and opinion. Throughout my…