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  • delirium
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 164

    #31
    looking forward to pictures. anyone going?

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    • snafu
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2008
      • 2135

      #32
      i hope this is not just a presentation, and the clothes will finally hit the stores in fw10: just another 6 months to wait.
      .

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      • Chinorlz
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2006
        • 6422

        #33
        Originally posted by snafu View Post
        i hope this is not just a presentation, and the clothes will finally hit the stores in fw10: just another 6 months to wait.
        Hehehe, agreed! Either way, showing in Paris now is one step closer to attainable-Aitor.
        www.AlbertHuangMD.com - Digital Portfolio Of Projects & Designs

        Merz (5/22/09):"i'm a firm believer that the ultimate prevailing logic in design is 'does shit look sick as fuck' "

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        • SHYE_POSER
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2009
          • 1143

          #34
          YEAR OF THE THROUP!

          Aitor shall be presenting in Paris a retrospective of all the trousers he has designed.

          Which then i hope shall lead to them being avaible to commoners such as ourselves via retail outlets!

          I know the guy loves football but after 2 years at umbro (aitor if you are reading) GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE AND GET SOME OF YOUR CLOTHES ON THE MARKET! MENSWEAR NEEDS YOU!
          merz: your look has all the grace of george michael at the tail end of a coke binge.

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          • Magician
            Senior Member
            • Jul 2008
            • 709

            #35
            Originally posted by SHYE_POSER View Post
            GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE AND GET SOME OF YOUR CLOTHES ON THE MARKET! MENSWEAR NEEDS YOU!
            Big +1. Though I dig the Stone Island stuff.
            Selling badass McQueen topcoat 48/38/M. I also write and tweet.

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            • lowrey
              ventiundici
              • Dec 2006
              • 8383

              #36
              Originally posted by SHYE_POSER View Post
              Aitor shall be presenting in Paris a retrospective of all the trousers he has designed.
              well this doesn't exactly suggest its "year of the throup" quite yet, but I hope it will be interesting and hopefully there will be something new shown
              "AVANT GUARDE HIGHEST FASHION. NOW NOW this is it people, these are the brands no one fucking knows and people are like WTF. they do everything by hand in their freaking secret basement and shit."

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              • SHYE_POSER
                Senior Member
                • Mar 2009
                • 1143

                #37
                I say that purely because he is showing also in Paris and shall be exposed to a much wider audience. As not many people tend to come to LFW for the menswear.
                And hopefully due to this exposure i feel it could be a good year for him. This could be the platform he needs to give that push to produce garments for sale.
                As for new pieces,not to sure. As it is a retrospective all the trousers he has designed,we may have seen most and possibly some new styles not yet seen(i hope).
                merz: your look has all the grace of george michael at the tail end of a coke binge.

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                • Silver
                  Member
                  • Sep 2008
                  • 86

                  #38
                  New holding page up.... http://www.aitorthroup.com/

                  Plus this from a friend of mine....

                  http://research-development.tumblr.com/

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                  • SHYE_POSER
                    Senior Member
                    • Mar 2009
                    • 1143

                    #39
                    live screening of his paris presentation, early this evening on his site.
                    merz: your look has all the grace of george michael at the tail end of a coke binge.

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                    • SHYE_POSER
                      Senior Member
                      • Mar 2009
                      • 1143

                      #40
                      supposedly. As you saw on the front page it also says www.showstudio.com shall be screening it also.
                      Havent checked myself yet....:(
                      merz: your look has all the grace of george michael at the tail end of a coke binge.

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                      • delirium
                        Senior Member
                        • Sep 2008
                        • 164

                        #41
                        that was fairly interesting. ahh i'm fiending for some AT pants now.

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                        • snafu
                          Senior Member
                          • Apr 2008
                          • 2135

                          #42
                          looks great
                          .

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                          • delirium
                            Senior Member
                            • Sep 2008
                            • 164

                            #43
                            yeah you're right, definitely not overdesigned. the construction details looked on point. the one thing i thought was a bit strange was the fabric choices, but when/if i see it in person, it'll actualize better.

                            but yeah i think these are the pants i've been looking for :).hope a few of the models fit bigger legs.

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                            • metin
                              Member
                              • Dec 2008
                              • 92

                              #44
                              I need those Trumpet pants in my life so bad. And almost all of the ones from the second part of the Funeral of New Orleans deserve a space in my closet.

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                              • SHYE_POSER
                                Senior Member
                                • Mar 2009
                                • 1143

                                #45
                                Interview from www.dazeddigital.com also some images of the PFW installation.

                                This weekend in Paris, designer Aitor Throup launched 'Legs', a retrospective of trousers designed from 2004 to 2010 by the Royal College of Art graduate and the result of six years of new object research. Throughout the Galerie Jean-Luc are Takako Richard stationary male forms moulded in thermoactive cotton mesh in rows from the ceiling, captured in vital movements of the human body. Throup has progressed chronologically through his archives, lifting a selection of designs from every six months and reinterpreting them with materials and design details appropriate to the season – and in doing so, has created an arena welcoming the expression of pure creativity and functionality. Capable of communicating a full-bodied narrative without proposing a complete look, Legs strives to elevate the status of trousers from over-saturated commodities to unique objet d’art.

                                Throup’s series of trousers entitled 'The Funeral of New Orleans' is in particular a testament to the creativity and logic of his vision. Informed by the traditional funeral processions of New Orleans’ marching bands, it deals with concepts of body armour – each piece is formed onto a mesh sculpture of the human body created in the pose required to play each instrument, and the trousers demonstrate five exaggerated stages of shrinkage from when wool is exposed to water. It is clear that Throup’s designs exist beyond the tired parameters of fashion– they are meticulously constructed garments existing both within their narrative and without, made with respect for the human body and an astounding understanding of its formation.

                                Dazed Digital: You know, I only know about your recent work – I couldn’t find out much about what you were doing two or three years ago.
                                Aitor Throup: Oh, really? What actually happened is that I graduated from my Masters with the Hooligans collection, and that was quite creatively exhausting for me really because of every single little detail that was there.

                                DD: At the same time, there was a kind of logic to it!
                                Aitor Throup: A logic but mostly an explanation. It’s based on a kind of deeper definition of this obsession with masculinity or this masculine obsession with what’s traditionally function. But it’s not actually function – it’s reason. Fuction is a reason – if something has a function, that is why it’s there, right? – but I’m interested in exploring reasons beyond function, so something can have a reason because of a narrative or a concept, so [with The Funeral of New Orleans], it’s not a function but because it’s one pair of trousers systematically shrinking, with the same pockets, same waistband, same construction, you’re moving and increments and you’re setting something in motion and telling a story. There is a reason that trouser is 33% smaller than that trouser!

                                DD: Is it really 33% smaller?
                                Aitor Throup: No, I can’t remember what it is exactly right now.

                                DD: Right. At this point I’m probably just going to believe everything that you say verbatim. This is unlike anything I’ve seen.
                                Aitor Throup: That’s alright. There’s a mathematical term called parametric equation which is basically an equation that is – well – defined by parameters. So the parameters are predefined, and then the equation can be infinite if that’s what you want. So, for example there’s this new movement in architecture that is mirroring that. Architects might expand ceilings or floor sizes by increments, and so a building just begins to build up. What increments are you changing? Which side of the building is growing?

                                DD: There’s such logic about all of your work. Is this something that has always been quite instinctual for you?
                                Aitor Throup: I think being conceptual in fashion is really overused but our conceptual is about having confidence that you can justify and explain and having a narrative and I think that is something that is quite rare.

                                DD: It’s similar to what you were saying earlier about how you can’t communicate all of this around us on a catwalk.
                                Aitor Throup: Exactly, I don’t like the mentality of showing something for a very limited amount of time to a static audience that doesn’t get to choose the amount of time they look at the object or the angle from which they look at it. Me, I love my objects! There is a narrative built in them and here I can allow the viewer to be the active component rather than the passive component. It’s for them, you know.
                                merz: your look has all the grace of george michael at the tail end of a coke binge.

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