White Mountaineering BLK 2009 Fall/Winter Collection
by Eugene Kan, August 10, 2009

White Mountaineering’s diffusion line BLK originally debuted with a largely muted color palette to keep in line with the sub-brand’s name. For the 2009 fall/winter collection, the brand incorporates black tones with red as the pop color of the season. Much smaller in size (item-wise) relative to the White Mountaineering main-line with, performance is at a pinnacle as GORE-TEX Pro Shells find themselves alongside Schoeller 3XDRY materials in addition to magnetic fastening systems. Bag releases feature the help of Porter over a few different styles.














[...] to boot. Too bad all this ish only comes in a Japanese-y large :/. I wasn’t feeling the BLK collection as much as I felt that the use of highlight colors with the red were a bit over-the-top [...]