Champion Releases First-Ever Collaboration With Tokyo Label ANREALAGE

ANREALAGE x Champion marks the sportswear brand’s first collaboration with the Tokyo label, spearheaded by designer Kunihiko Morinaga.

Morinaga’s designs tend to deconstruct fashion’s ever-evolving relationship with digital art. With a strong following in his native Japan, the designer turns his focus to sportswear brand Champion on “○ △ □”, a collection of shape-shifting silhouettes that elegantly drape against the body in oversize fits. “○ △ □” interprets classic Champion garments as aqueous forms: asymmetrical silhouettes create a sense of movement, elongating the body as if in liquid form.

ANREALAGE’s 2016 Spring/Summer collection included sculptural garments with a reflective shell, activated by the flash of a strobe light. “○ △ □” plays off of similar geometric thematic, this time offering oversize silhouettes branded with Champion’s red, white, and blue logo. Morinaga revisions the A-line silhouette as a fluid cut, interpreted in “○ △ □” as select spherical hoodies and T-shirts expanded to 150%, and accompanying pyramid ponchos and dresses modified with 300% extra fabric. The silhouettes remain tailored despite their experimental alterations.

The hooded sweatshirt will retail for ¥38,500 JPY (approximately $334 USD), ¥40,700 JPY ($353 USD) for the zip-up hooded sweatshirt, and ¥20,900 JPY ($180 USD) for the poncho. The oversize skirts featured in the collection retail for ¥24,200 ($210 USD) and ¥23,100 JPY ($200 USD), with the T-shirts retailing at ¥16,500 JPY ($143 USD).

Shop the limited-edition, avant-garde pieces at Champion’s and ANREALAGE’s home websites, expected to go live on February 9, and in-store at Champion Brand House Shibuya Tokyo, Champion Brand House Shinsaibashi Osaka, and Unrealage Shibuya Parco in Tokyo, Japan.

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