CoSTUME NATIONAL is a fashion brand founded in Italy from 1986. Their style is cutting edge but also it’s a very minimalist style. It is an avant-garde appearance that is very authentic. It is one of the most popular brands in the world as the forefront of mode fashion. This time, Rekiseisha has completed a collaboration project with CoSTUME NATIONAL by making leather racing jackets using the silver leaf technique. It’s an unprecedented product that we are excited to release. “We have decided to proceed this project, believing that it will become an unprecedented proposal by overlapping Japanese technology of covering with silver leaf and our clothes that have been made in Italy,” CoSTUME NATIONAL Creative Team says. Although its Creative Team had the impression of gold and silver leaf used for architectural and furniture decoration, it was found that it is also well-compatible with leather by repeating examinations using various fabrics such as wool and denim. When you see the actual clothes, you would notice that it has also become very high-quality as you can easily see. The point is that they have tried to finish in a way that would give a random expression. It is possible to finish the leaf uniformly and beautifully to the leather material, but this time they tried to put it on the state of clothes beforehand. By doing so, it produces irregularities such as the leaf does not cover on the stitching and it has made use of fun, manual work. The Team says, “Through this project, the awareness of the possibilities for “leaf” has changed. If you have this skill, you can put leaf on any kind of clothes. The technology and efforts of Rekiseisha have various possibilities.” The clothing with leaf may become unrealistic sometimes, but this time it has accomplished a realistic and new way to show fashion. Another thing is that through this collaboration we are showing that the possibilities of using leaf in this way are endless.

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