today roland mouret said to write down six of your favourite designers and then to design and if anything you design is similar to simply throw it out, to be completely pure and original.
Super 8 by Sam Hoolihan for ALL Knitwear
Where did you get the name Easternsports?
Alex Da Corte: The name comes from a poem that Jayson wrote in the early 2000s. In the poem, he makes reference to a westerner’s knowledge of Buddhism as ‘easternsports’. Westerners are encouraged to ‘find themselves’ and in that process we try on, then discard many ideologies, thus reducing them to trite intellectual garments, or a light pastime much akin to sports. The multichannel play cycles through five cycles of these ideological archetypes in attempt to chart and map the kinds of rituals we go through to achieve these cultural ideals.
Lately I feel there was a systematic behaviour, and maybe I just wanna say that to a young generation, because I still feel like a young brand. There was a lot of dialogue and feedback and it keeps me in that energy, and I think that maybe partly - not that we were consciously thinking that over - someone like me needs to show that you can do it. Even if you don’t have white lights or seating or whatever. It’s about what you show, not so much about the circumstances in which you show.
today anything that sounds grotesque is cool.
examples; acne, dust, shallowww
