(๑>◡<๑)NY2TOKYO(˶˃ ᵕ ˂)Admin
04/21/2025(Mon)02:04:00 No.15350
In this thread, we will discuss the influence japan has had on marking distance, going through our second prototype shoot and the making even more of our pieces.
First we have the very kawaii fetish dress (ᵕ—ᴗ—) when we started designing, we werent planning on ever making any womens pieces. One of the pieces we ran into alot of in the process of prototype making were silk slip ons.
We had found this white one, but we hadn't figured out what exactly to do with it, its classic, but boring. as we were building the essence and identity of the brand, we were trying to figure WHAT could make this item "Marking Distance". James had really good waxing and bleaching techniques, but as the brand was coming to fruition we also knew that fetishism was one of our big inspirations.
Besides the sexual aspect of this, the /fa in me always thought this was a cool piece of hardware, so we went to a sex store in NY and bought a few different sets of nipple chains / weights (we looked mad sus lol (╥﹏╥) im talking to the guy at the counter like "nah bro, i swear, this for fashion bro, i got a brand" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This was the fetish dress after the first few rounds of waxing, dying and bleaching. the wax gave it this almost leather like look to it, which happened on accident of course, but it was all part of the experiment.
Iris, tokyo - 2023
The finished prototype ended up much lighter after letting dry in the sun for a weeks + the bleach, but it had retained this changed texture.
For the production version we had used italian silk and made our own hardware, and also made it i black. The base of silk we used for the final version was black and the bleach is how we got it to be the color it is now.
>"so we went to a sex store in NY and bought a few different sets of nipple chains / weights" pic related
this is the nippy hoodie which we made from another set of nipple weight we got in the same shopping spree lol
The original prototype of the notre dame crewneck was an old collegiate sweater we found from notre dame with a massive sunkist ad on it. We wanted to cover the ad by putting a leather patch on it which was handsewn with dental floss, and then i remembered all those margiela sweaters with the elbow patches which then inspired these elbow patches
Jibril, Tokyo - 2023
What really drew us to japan is how good they are at recreating vintage, they have truly figured out the art of making clothes look ancient, worn and lived in, even though they are brand spanking new.
Thats what we were trying to figure out, how the fuck do we go from these prototypes that are actually vintage, hand sewn, hand dyed, waxed, distressed etc into Production pieces.
The thing that we learned in japan is... time
patience
we were rushing into something that needed time. I understand, great things take time.
We had alot of japanese friends, and people we knew come to our showroom which i had set up at the hotel i always stay at in tokyo.
They loved everything, but with our collection being over 30 pieces, the timeline that we were given wasnt feasible with our goals.
But we didnt give up just yet.
from our time in japan, we learned alot about denim, hand distressing, and attention to detail we wouldnt have learned about without the insight of our japanese friends.
Jibril, Tokyo - 2023
While in japan, we thought it would be a good idea to do another test shoot since we had more prototypes made since our last shoot in NYC.
We wanted to see what the clothes looked like on people and not a rack.
The Hibernation set was originally like this, both the pants and the top were lined with some sort of faux fur/insulation
We had already designed the Grandma trench by then and worked on the grandpa trench, so james had already dialed the waxing process and we knew what our design language was going to be for this set.
production was tough because trying to get that texture + finding enough of the same vintage buttons wasnt easy, but if you zoom it, you would see all of these rips in the item, which are then all repaired by hand (inspired by japanese sashiko, a style of repair)
, as if this jacket was given to you by your elder, and as the buttons fall of, you would repair them with the buttons ur grandma gave you,
as it would rip, you would stitch it back up with ur own sewing kit.
its meant to look like an artifact, something you would find in your attic.
