Hiroshi is keeping busy. After last week, single-handedly putting Converse Chucks back on the map, he now follows up with a Kangol release. It drops this Saturday at Reed Space and about a dozen other locations around the globe.
Colorways for days….(photo: jerry)
To the casual eye, this looks like a logo slap on the back of a hat. But if you’re a close follower of my blog, you’ll see that this collaboration took almost a year to bring to life. I said this in my last entry about Gravis: I think the beauty is creating something that looks effortless. The reality is the effort that goes into it. I’ll give you a flashback…
- Nov 16th, 2006: The conversation begins about what a collaboration might look like.
- April 22nd, 2007: A sample is seen in the wild.
- July 7th, 2007: A meeting in Berlin to talk about how it’s sold, distribution, marketing, etc.
And of course, this doesn’t include the many hours David from Kangol and HF spent without my graceful presence. I was really only a fly on the wall for this project. But it was nice to be there to offer my 2 cents whenever I could. The creative process is the stuff of magic. It cannot be bottled or calculated. You watch it grow and try to let nature take its course.
Par example…do you know how this project even happened? HF was in New York on a short trip and one day decided to go to The Whitney Museum uptown. David from Kangol happened to be there as well. David saw this guy wearing a Kangol and approached him and low and behold it was Hiroshi. In essence, if Hiroshi needed to take a piss instead of being at THAT spot at THAT time, this whole project would or could have possibly never happened. I tell you…luck doesn’t find you. You have to find IT.
