Stone Island Shadow Project began as a discourse between Sportswear Company owner and creative director Carlo Rivetti and the design team of Michaela Sachenbacher and Errolson Hugh, also known as ACRONYM®. A platform for exploration, the Shadow project rapidly evolved into a system based program for a new generation of urban masculine apparel. With both Stone Island’s incredible historical archive, and its unparalleled forward Development resources as a starting point, ACRONYM® sought to conceive a project according to their strong technical and performance based roots. The result is a unique and unprecedented fusion. A fresh and intelligent new light cast upon the timeless interplay of form and function. Calling the project SHADOW underlines the intimate relationship and interaction between this work and the full body of the Stone Island collection.
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Driven, as ever, by textile innovations from the Stone Island laboratory, the ninth Stone Island Shadow Project collection is an investigation into modern texture and structure.
An intrinsic understanding of technology and performance renders garments that are unfussy and practical. An informed view of contemporary culture and context renders a look and feel that is urbane and progressive. 5719 defines modernity as an innate flowstate of ease and nuance. Base materials have been selected for their natural warmth and familiarity. Reassuring and subdued, they are then carefully tuned for protection and carefree daily use. Piece dyed fabrics in the collection are precise, rich, and tactile. Garment dyed fabrics achieve signature depths of colour saturation and expression. New to Shadow this season are knitted items and engineered knit details. Notably the new Stealth Jacket; a Gore-Tex Proshell crombie whose hidden pocket array is knit ‘in macchina’.
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Proof
Purpose: Total weather protection Fabrics: Hermetic properties Items: Shell -
Augment
Purpose: Adapt and customize Fabrics: Enhanced properties Items: Modular -
Resist
Purpose: Wide spectrum use Fabrics: Resistant properties Items: Shell -
Skin
Purpose: Contact layer Fabrics: Comfort properties Items: Non-shell -
Equip
Purpose: Access and support Fabrics: Peripheral properties Items: Accessories
