Outerwear label Tatras, which takes its identify from a snow-peaked stretch of mountains between Slovakia and Poland, was born between continents. Based by Japanese designer Sakao Masanaka in Milan, Italy in 2007, it describes its strategy as combining ‘Japanese innovation and Italian craftsmanship’ throughout its expansive cold-weather wardrobe (although stays best-known for its signature goose-down padded jackets).
And, whereas Tatras stays comparatively nameless in Europe, the label seems to be set to be within the midst of a inventive evolution – this month, it marks a brand new collaboration with the multidisciplinary Italian artist Giovanni Leonardo Bassan, heralding the launch of an expansive new retailer in Ginza, Tokyo.
Inside Tatras’ new outpost in Ginza, Tokyo
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A protégé of Michèle Lamy and a longtime collaborator with Rick Owens (he has been head of furnishings on the label since 2018), Bassan has created a particular MA1 bomber jacket for the model, which reverses to disclose certainly one of his artworks – an oil portray of our bodies intertwined (a particular method has been used to copy the unique texture). With sustainability in thoughts, it’s crafted from a mix of wool and Spiber’s Brewed Protein™, a low-environmental-impact materials made by way of fermentation.
‘[The] first time sporting certainly one of my work,’ learn the caption of a current Instagram put up by Bassan, displaying the artist within the jacket amid a few of his monolithic furnishings designs.
The shop itself, which is positioned within the upscale Ginza neighbourhood, is an expansive, multi-level house which is essentially primarily based across the thought of ‘magnificence in distinction’ (it’s a model mantra which emerges from the label’s Japan-meets-Italy codes). As such, the ethereal areas mix pure parts – like clean stone and picket furnishings – with modern concrete and chrome steel. ‘The design is impressed by the fusion of Italian and Japanese influences that outline Tatras,’ the model describes.
The shop may also act like one thing of a rolling gallery house, that includes each native artists and people from additional afield. For the opening, ceramics by Asahiyaki, a standard pottery producer primarily based within the Uji area of Kyoto Prefecture, are interspersed all through, positioned in dialog with Tatras’ distinctly formed puffer jackets. The intention of such ‘installations’, says Tatras, is to recall up to date sculpture.
Tatras Ginza, V88 Constructing, 2-chōme-5-11 Ginza, Chuo Metropolis, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan.
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(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Tatras)
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