British outerwear model Baracuta – nonetheless synonymous with the G9 Harrington jacket first crafted in England in 1937 – reveals its newest collaboration as we speak, teaming up with Junya Watanabe to create a reimagined model of the G9 imbued with the Japanese designer’s avant-garde sensibility and eye for minimize and kind (Watanabe was a protégé of Rei Kawakubo and stays a part of the Comme des Garçons group).
Watanabe was given free rein to transform the seminal garment – Baracuta observe it was the designer’s ‘expertise and skill to interpret’ that supplied the roots of the collaboration – right here focusing totally on silhouette, increasing the G9’s proportions for an outsized match. Watanabe approached the redesign by means of deconstruction, taking aside the unique sample and reimagining its form in panels of various materials for a delicate feeling of patchwork. The ultimate jacket is all black, recalling each the unique G9 Harrington and a basic bomber jacket.
Baracuta x Junya Watanabe
Baracuta x Junya Watanabe
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In any other case, Watanabe selected to retain lots of the unique G9’s options – specifically the umbrella again yoke, basic two-button ‘canine ear’ collar, raglan sleeves and recognisable slanted pockets. The jacket additionally retains the tartan lining of the unique design, although right here Baracuta’s recognisable Fraser tartan turns into mixed-up with a ‘punk-style’ tartan of Watanabe’s personal selecting (within the assortment’s accompanying photographs, the jacket is worn with a tartan kilt – one of many Japanese designer’s personal iconic items).
The limited-edition Baracuta x Junya Watanabe jacket – which the model name a ‘true collectable’ – is obtainable from as we speak (11 November 2022) on Baracuta’s web site and in Eye, Comme des Garçons and Junya Watanabe retailers.
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