Released in store at FIFTH STORE on Saturday, January 4th
Ripped Double Knee Pants:
FIFTH + ANACHRONORM
Ripped Double Knee Pants: FIFTH + ANACHRONORM
In collaboration with Anachronorm, one of Japan's leading brands specializing in vintage processing, we have created a special model featuring a distressed double knee design from FIFTH.
Utilizing the skills of experienced craftsmen who also work on processing for top brands such as overseas maison brands, this piece has been finished with realistic distressed processing under the direction of FIFTH.
Ripped Double Knee Pants: FIFTH + ANACHRONORM
Colour / Faded Black
Size/XS, Small, Medium, Large.
Price / ¥40,000 +Tax
The base pants are work pants, a staple item at FIFTH. They are inspired by the painter pants of a long-established American workwear brand, with an adjusted silhouette and sizing, featuring a wide, baggy double knee design.
The Cultural Roots of
Distressed Aesthetics
As you look through the photo book, the appeal of distressed clothing naturally becomes linked to fashion history and culture.
"Freedom/Hashiguchi Joji (Kadokawa Shoten)" is a photo book published in 1998. A Japanese photographer living in Berlin vividly captures the young people there. Their aggressive style, known as "crust punk," feels fresh. The short texts inserted into the photographs convey a sense of urgency, as if moratorium and identity are in conflict.
The Berliners featured in this photobook are dressed in clothes that are either tattered or customised, and rather than copying their everyday, cool attire, the book takes inspiration from the decadent atmosphere of the now-defunct 90s.
LEVI'S DENIM ART CONTEST CATALOGUE OF WINNERS (1973')
Also, "Creating Body Coverings/Jean Ray Laury & Joyce Aiken (Van Nostrand Reinhold)" and "LEVI'S DENIM ART CONTEST CATALOGUE OF WINNERS"
These two books give us a sense of the history of the act of "processing" clothes.
Creating Body Coverings/Jean Ray Laury & Joyce Aiken (Van Nostrand Reinhold / 1974)
The former is a book that collects customizations such as embroidery and patchwork that evoke connections to hippie culture, while the latter is a collection of works submitted to a denim art contest held by Levi's in 1973. Both books were published in the 1970s, and they give a sense of people's insatiable curiosity and aesthetic sense regarding "processing."
The Precision and Techniques
Behind the Process
Okayama's secondary processing technology
Okayama is famous as a denim production area, and as a by-product, its clothing processing technology is at a level unparalleled in the world.
This time, with the cooperation of ANACHRONORM, we were able to enlist the help of factories and craftsmen who would normally be turned away.
Each one is damaged in detail.
After going through this seemingly contradictory process of carefully disintegrating the material, the double knee pants are completed with a realistic aging finish.
Please look forward to seeing the actual result.