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As early as in the BG ERA 1650, the high council of PRIMUS had realized that due to the SUB-ERA mankind’s prolonged EX - ploitation of mother planet V-19, irreversible damage had been caused, the depleted and unstable stellar core had entered the collapsing cycle. On the surface, the council announced that it seeks to continue the fire of civilization, but the essence s to get rid of dependence on the depleted host galaxy and expand its core industrial profits, unlimited exploitation of interstellar resources. The PRIMUS council launched the stellar engine project “GAEA”.

POST EXILE ERA

Even with the excellent technological level of PRIMUS at the time, this enormous creation-level of this universe project lasted for mare than 400 years before it can left the parent galaxy to complete the migration from V-19 to GAEA. A huge interstellar engine that consumes alien stars as its driving energy, begins to advance toward to the next “collectable” planet, so as the POST-EXILE ERA begins.

The lower planetary, orbiting at the bottom of the trunk of the stellar engine GAEA is one of the vital components used as interstellar energy mining, loading and extraction, and most importantly the stellar engine propulsion.

Most of the people living here are from the bottom of the infrastructure where they first migrated from the mother planet in those years. As the descendants of the advanced engineering troops who work as engine coolies for their own survival and for their families to fight for the quota of preferential migration from the mother planet to GAEA.

ENGINE CORE CITY

Our story begins in this engine world, JEJE, an lower planet engine city resident born in the after –EXILE ERA, is an orphan who, like the other migratory descendants here, was raised by the lower planetary union since childhood.

Everyday, like other hand working little union kids, she lives a fixed daily work routine arranged by the interstellar energy company ANTARES. Everyday she tolls with her partner “DUNGEE” a gravitational reaper capable of salvaging star dust from the edge city area, and transport them over the orbital mountain to the refinery core of engine city.

LOOKBOOK

CONVERSE Classic black and white canvas footwear combined with RICK OWEN'S Stark universe of modernist minimalise design, the first time that CONVERSE presented in a squaring-off toe and extending the tongue.

"When I think of Converse, I think of the black and white Chuck Taylors and the punk rock generation. These have always been iconic pillars of my aesthetic, wearing Chuck Taylors, you align yourself with a generation that was experimental. There is a confident dynamic to the subculture."

- RICK OWENS

Following the success of their first capsule collection that debut at Paris Fashion Week in June 2019.

Champion and Rick Owens are pleased to announce the official launch of this second collaborative collection dropping at the end of March 2021.

Celebrating Champion’s rich athletic heritage and Rick Owens’ signature contemporary aesthetic, the collection has been designed and developed for both men and women, carefully combining creativity and sustainability.

Using 100% organic cottons and recycled nylons, the collection was produced using predominantly locally sourced materials, whilst all packaging will incorporate plastic free, biodegradable materials and recycled paper.

The collection continues with a strong monochrome color palette with the addition of some subtle color accents for this season. Key iconic products stories such as Sweatshirts, Sweatpants and Tees, coupled with mesh shorts and lightweight outerwear pieces have all been reimagined and carefully finished with a unique champion logo.

Essential accessories include: athletic inspired caps, headbands and bucket hats, as well as elegant tote bags, pocket purses and face coverings compliment and sustainable story.

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Kuboraum founders

The designer and artist Livio Graziottin together with anthropologist Sergio Eusebi launched in July 2018 their new project Innerraum.

After their reinterpretation of the eyewear world, the constant interaction with the world of art, music, the anxiety to push their project beyond the limits of the optical and fashion business to become a form of lifestyle, culture to embrace an ethic vision of a community and collectionist.

Innerraum is a polyhedric and polyphonic project with it’s own language and aesthetic, a new vision of luxury translated in single object, sculptures.

Innerraum is a new form of language translated into individual objects in the innerraum collection is a bearer of memory and innovation at the same instant, this is precisely what makes each of these objects:

Polyphonic objects that, through the manipulation of the concept of luxury, disintegrated into an ecstatic conflict with our own subconscious, affirming the birth of a new futuristic aesthetic; an aesthetic never seen before that dialogues with our past, with our past, with our memory and with our daily life affirming a new vision of luxury.

The project is focusing on the body, each object of innerraum is wearable as an augmented body, each object of innerraum is wearable as an augmented body.

Each object is a unique piece assembled by hand in innerraum laboratory in Italy. Innerraum is a multifaceted project born in the island of Berlin and handmade in Italy.

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SHENYANG MIXC HUI  

Address: First floor, 199 Noth Changbai Rd. Heping avenue, Shenyang City. 

SHANGHAI TX HUAI HAI  

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Jiuguang   

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KRAKATAU slogan “Antagonist Survival Kit” has been used since the brand was born in St.Petersburg in 1999 and later when it spread its wings to the European and Asian markets.

And these three words hold a much deeper meaning than just helping people survive bad weather conditions.

If we are to describe what KRAKATAU actually does, the best word for it would be “protection”: rain/cold protection, environment protection (by use of sustainable clothing materials), human protection,personal data protection (see recent collaboration with collaboration with Kaspersky Lab, global cybersecurity and anti-virus provider).

The most expected items from the new collection are waterproof trench coats, as well as waterproof jackets with contract color taped seams.

One of the most exceptional ones – ultimately waterproof futuristic raincoats made of biodegradable polyurethane material.

Although KRAKATAU usually focuses on watBHer resistant clothing, the new spring-summer collection was expanded with sweatshirts,fade-neon-colored T-shirts, stylish jumpsuits and packable windbreaker jackets made of ripstop fabric.

SS21 COLLECTION LOOK BOOK

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Galerise Lafayette 

Address: 4th floor, 889 South Pudong Rd. Shanghai City 

Eslite 

Address: First floor, 8 Yuelang Rd. Suzhou CIty 

SHENYANG MIXC  

Address: Shenyang MIx C 4F, 288 Qing nian avenue, Shenyang City

SHENYANG MIXC HUI  

Address: First floor, 199 Noth Changbai Rd. Heping avenue, Shenyang City. 

SHANGHAI TX HUAI HAI  

Address: TX Huai Hai 2F, 523 Huai Hai Road, Shanghai City 

Jiuguang   

Address: 4th floor, 1618 West Nanjing rd. Shanghai City 

AKENZ VIP 

Address: Room 1B, 1003 Wuding rd, Shanghai City

"PHOSPHORESCENCE"  磷光

In the 2021 spring/summer collection of SANKUANZ, the designer Zhe Shangguan has continued his usual design style combined with the inspiration from national culture east to west which range from South Park to Buddhist tradition.

This collection has inspired from the Mongolian traditional clothing, the significant detail tall shoulders design which represent the fearless and toughness of the Mongolian soldiers.

Also many other details come from the traditional Chinese costumes, like the Mandarin collars. Its kind of the perfect mix of traditional and pop culture.

There are some pieces worth to mention , such as sharp-lined suits with slim tailored dresses, its refined from the famous photographer Pieter Hugo who recording the people whose living in Africa.

They using the historical African soft knitted fabric to make their own clothing paired with military clothing or a long printed dress, a mood of wondering between modern and primitive, looking for the delicate balance of uniform style and street wear.

There are many iconic elements that you can see everywhere in this collections. Such as the Othala totem and some metal decoration like daggers.

These symbols represent the integration and impact of different cultures in globalization.

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Galerise Lafayette 

Address: 4th floor, 889 South Pudong Rd. Shanghai City 

Eslite 

Address: First floor, 8 Yuelang Rd. Suzhou CIty 

SHENYANG MIXC  

Address: Shenyang MIx C 4F, 288 Qing nian avenue, Shenyang City

SHENYANG MIXC HUI  

Address: First floor, 199 Noth Changbai Rd. Heping avenue, Shenyang City. 

SHANGHAI TX HUAI HAI  

Address: TX Huai Hai 2F, 523 Huai Hai Road, Shanghai City 

Jiuguang   

Address: 4th floor, 1618 West Nanjing rd. Shanghai City 

AKENZ VIP 

Address: Room 1B, 1003 Wuding rd, Shanghai City

Astrid Andersen is a Copenhagen / London based brand that creates premium casualwear designer clothing with a sports inspired aesthetic that leads a new generation in menswear. The collections offer comfort as the ultimate styling and quality as an uncompromised signature of its style.

Astrid Andersen is Danish born fashion designer and trained at the Royal College of Art in London. She launched the namesake label in 2010 and consults for labels such as Nike and Saga Furs, determined to fuse the world of luxury and sports. The brand has an international cult following and is celebrated as a pioneer having been nominated fro the LVMH Price, British Fashion Awards and GQ/BFC Menswear Fund.

 Astrid Andersen FW20

Article from Hero Magazine

For FW20, the designer set focus to her native Denmark, more specifically a memory of her mother’s first piece of furniture when she left her parents’ home – a small rose-printed couch bought in 1971. The couch became a core element to the collection as an observation of the world of the time, when liberalism and anti-war movements were on the rise, and Copenhagen’s Freetown Christiania was established in the name of anarchism, self-governing society and community. 

Fashion-wise, Denmark’s very own Age of Aquarius came by way of flared trousers, retro-inflected colour-block tracksuits, ponchos, puffer jackets, a distorted floral pattern inspired by her mother’s upholstery, lacey jacquards and a mash-up of camouflage and animal prints. There were Andersen’s signature fur coats, in partnership with Danish label Saga Furs, and collaborations with Danish jewellery designer Vibe Harsløf and sportswear brand Hummel – the chunky sneakers were a re-worked version of the latter’s archival REACH LX style.

At the turn of the decade, her vision is pretty optimistic. “I wanted to reference something quite personal this season,” Andersen said backstage. “The starting point for the collection was my mum moving out of her home aged 18, but I wanted to reflect the parallelism of how she was feeling at the time and what’s happening now – I feel like people are collectively thinking about the world more, rather than the individual.”

HAMCUS Brand was founded in 2015, and have since presented their yearly two collections at the Paris Fashion Week. Ever since the brand was presented the first time it caught the attention of several established techwear brands and media platforms. The incredible complexity of the tailoring, unique innovation and care for details along with a deep understanding of technical manufacturing methods makes Hamcus one of the most sophisticated and complicated collections in the market. 

The designer of the brand Tuff Leung shows absolute individuality in his designs, which focuses as much on the garments as on characters from sci-fi movies and video games inspired universe that Tuff is building around the brand.

A few pieces from the last HAMCUS FW20 collection: 

See Hamcus FW20 available pieces:

Below pictures is Errolson Hugh, designer of ACRONYM, visiting the Hamcus collection in Paris and trying on some pieces.

Let us know if you have any questions in regards to HAMCUS. We would be more than happy to answer any questions or help you link up with the brand. 

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AKENZ team

#DontBelieveTheHype

Boris Bidjan Saberi: A man of modest background but extravagant dedication to his craftsmanship and design philosophy.

It is well known BBS comes from a dynamic cultural heritage, his Father being Persian/Russian and Mother Irish/German and a love for skateboarding and punk music, but only upon visiting him at his showroom in Paris and having an extended sit-down that we had access to really understand more of how these elements have come to shape his work.