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A tailoring guru making men’s wear women crave, a couple trading the runway for film, and a recycling enthusiast working with vintage military materials. What do all these up-and-comers share? Plenty of drive and a unique point of view.
September 2011
Christopher Raeburn for Victorinox
Since its debut in 2008, Christopher Raeburn’s sporty outerwear,
meticulously crafted from dead-stock fabrics and military-issued
materials, has attracted legions of fans—among them Swiss cutlery-plus
brand Victorinox, which tapped the British designer (left) to create a
capsule collection for fall. Called Remade in Switzerland, it consists
of eight pieces fashioned from national military surplus: an Officer’s
Parka, made from sleeping bag outers; a Recruit’s Cap, cut from wool
jackets and cotton bedsheets; a Horseshoe Nail Swiss Army Knife, cast
from smelted horseshoe nails and repackaged in the same paper box that
once held them. By virtue of the materials used, each item comes in a
limited edition of 100. “It’s just a few pieces, done perfectly,”
Raeburn says (remadeinswitzerland.com).
September 2011
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