Whether you’re dressing for your at-home self or online window shopping to future-plan your vacation wardrobe, sartorial joy deserves to be found at the moment.
Helping with just that is luxury menswear stalwart, Dunhill, who has collaborated with Tokyo-based artist Kenta Cobayashi for a digital take on Spring/Summer dressing.
Known for his use of distortion, Cobayashi’s work is characterized by digital manipulation images, and draws inspiration from the changing landscape of Tokyo and its evolving arts scene, resulting in fashion pieces with a brilliantly ‘warped’ sense of style.
For S/S20, Dunhill’s creative director, Mark Weston, handpicked four archive images form Cobayashi to rework. Chosen for their graphical and abstract composition, these collaborative works have then been applied as prints to selected outerwear, casualwear and leather goods.
“I really believe in collaboration. I like the way things unfold when you are working with someone else that your respect,” says Dunhill’s creative director, Mark Weston. “I had really been taken by Kenta’s work a couple fo years ago and I was just waiting for the right time to ask him to work with me. In a sense, the whole digital field has become much more appealing - I love the idea of ‘digital crafting’.The way Kenta’s work utilities distortion really struck a chord with me for this collection. His ‘Smudge’ series is a favorite period of mine and we absorbed those ideas in an open dialogue about Dunhill. For Dunhill, it was a new way to approach the archive without being a slave to it.”