Romanian Designers: INTRODUCING: t w e n t y (2) t o o

NeW MuSic fOr oLd BoYs

Or the merry voyage in the land of Builder BOB.

Last season I had a surrealist experience in Berlin where I found myself in the middle of a Navajo Robotic Invasion. Not only did they share the same odd passion for plaid shirts, rolled up dark denim trousers and Navajo prints, beards, and school boy hair cuts, but they even seemed to share their first names: OLIVER.

After my initial “hipsterophilactic” shock, I started to amuse myself by imagining a country where all of its inhabitants had the same traits, the same style, and clothes and the same names.

Oddly enough and completely unexpectedly, the inspiration came from Africa, then the images I discovered on Simon Foxton’s blog offered me the context to let myself carried away on an unfriendly unknown land, with strange people with painted faces and bodies, and who wear beaded masks that blend the artisanal occupation characteristic in a Romanian region called Maramures with the ancestral traditions of African tribes.

Africa is only natural for an inspiration, because in a way, this collection marks the return to nature, to what is primordial, and at the same time a return to the initial t w e n t y (2) t o o manifesto: a melting pot of street wear mixed with tailoring elements and inspired by urban jungles and peasant lifestyle.

This time, the items of the collection are elementary basics of any wardrobe, transposed in an almost documentary fashion, as if captured on the National Geographic.

The more masculine cut clothes seem to be mended from older items of an imaginary older brother, short denim jackets are transformed into trench coats, sleeveless jackets have cardigans attached on top of them, temperate colors that hide surprisingly vibrant linings and finishes, the layering of textures that apparently do not follow any particular logic in their matching, all of these are merely pretexts for the celebration of life.

This “ joie de vivre” is reflected in the construction of the garment per se. One of the missions I desired for the t w e n t y (2) t o o adventure was to create playful, versatile clothes, that one could transform and combine in more than one way. Today I am nearer from this goal as ever, because I really felt like playing, having fun, and dance.

Since here at t w e n t y (2) t o o we enjoy team play, we embarked on our adventure the extremely talented Mrs. Carla Szabo to realize our beaded African masks and pretty much all of the accessories you will surely love for this crazy collection.

Dear boys, and some girls I know, I hope you like the music!

Thank you for all your support and friendship:

ACCESSORIES
Carla Szabo
www.carlaszabo.com

SHOES: Mihaela Glavan

MUSIC: DJ BOGMAN

PHOTO: TIBI CLENCI

MODELS: ALLURE models

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The label t w e n t y (2) t o o will present the new collection SS 2013 at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin

Saturday 7th of July, 11:30 am