TIGHTBOOTH Teams up With fragment design on Oversized Winter Layers
Functional skatewear.
Japanese skate team TIGHTBOOTH has brought on Hiroshi Fujiwara‘s fragment imprint for its latest project, following up its previous KILLER-BONG collaboration, with a slew of casual staples. TIGHTBOOTH was founded in 2005 by Osaka-born professional rider Shinpei Ueno and has since become well known in Tokyo’s skating communities.
This project is made up of five distinctive oversized silhouettes: a hoodie with dropped shoulders, baggy tee, big fanny pack, billowing parka and a thin trucker jacket. Each style comes in palettes of white, black, olive and light blue that are glossed with stark co-branding – “TIGHTBOOTH PRODUCTION” and “FRAGMENT DESIGN.” One graphic that recurs throughout the range is the “50/50” motif, which references the skate trick, while fragment’s twin-lightning bolt logo appears through-and-through.
Some of the pieces incorporate hi-tech materials, too. The insulated Monster Parka uses a durable nylon shell inspired by textiles used in the PCU LEVEL 7 jacket used by the US Army Special Forces. Other pieces like the two-layer trucker jackets, hoodies and T-shirts, with its function-focused range, round up the capsule, while pieces like the oversized fanny pack round up the range.
The fragment design x TTIGHTBOOTH capsule will be available on October 26 at a special site and a pop-up shop held on the dedicated site tbprfragment.com.
Elsewhere, A Bathing Ape and Outdoor Products have released a series of travel-friendly bags.
