In preparation for winter’s upcoming fashion weeks (the first of which is kicking off for us in Copenhagen) we’ve been remembering labels that have excited us over the last six months and doing a lot of research on labels we’re eager to see in an attempt to work out our schedules. There’s only so much time and always too many appointments. ffixxed is a label that forms part of the latter - a new discovery for us while we were click, click, clicking away on the keyboard.
It’s a kind of an academic-meets-art-is-fashion label, so ffixxed is conceptual rather than commercial in their ideas. The overarching premise to their work is the idea that people should adapt to all physical, cultural and economic environments and it’s an idea that ffixxed have wholly embraced themselves, having left Melbourne to establish the label in Berlin, only to move to New York, then settle in Hong Kong. Their perception of a new world order and it’s relevance to fashion is quite modern, as the force of globalisation creates nomadic “citizens of the world”. But as we are progressively exposed to a more standardised way to dress, it’s the details in the design that differentiate.
Unseen Utopia is ffixxed’s current summer collection. They have taken a minimalist sensibility to draw parallels between the environment and our relationship to it. Using natural fibres, light jersey and printed mesh, form and function are precedent as pieces surprise to reveal different shapes, questioning a garments original intent. While the range is divided between men and women the garments themselves don’t necessarily take on specific gender roles. It’s almost an asexual way to dress, but one that questions the need for clothing as a function rather than a fashion. And it looks incredibly cool.
