Combat Jacket 1998
Fabric : Bie Barzaghi Italy – Cotton & Resin finish
Reference : Stripped back M43
Manufactured : England
Archive : Combat Jacket 1998
Archive Community project
After 30 years we have decided to document the story of our unique brand. With your help, we will produce three newspapers, each documenting a particular decade in the history of 6876.
The publication will take the form of documenting the garments through high level product photography which will be an exhaustive and intensive process.
Also featured will be some archive artworks and brochures as well as unique interviews or written features with the people closest to the company.
We have chosen this format as we think this suits the aesthetic of the brand and is less reverential or self important than a glossy book
The print runs will be approximately 6 months apart & will be limited to 6876 followers.
Radge Scarf
One Francis Begbie is a major culprit, obviously. He is the archetypal radge: wild, unpredictable, and violent. A man you do not want to spill a pint on.
As well as being radge, you can also go radge: a prolific, sustained bout of swearing or a violent outburst
It’s also used as a casual term of endearment, predominantly in the east coast (“come here, ya wee radge.”). A seemingly improbable event can also be described as being “radge”.
Library Additions
Au Service Du Peuple
The Renault factory in Boulogne-Billancourt is famous as the place where the factory occupations of the 1936 Popular Front got started.
Again in 1968, the workers of Boulogne-Billancourt seized their factory during the May Events. As soon as the students learned of the seizure a march was organised from the Sorbonne to the factory. In a spirit of solidarity and strength the two united.
Operai Studenti
Potere Operaio was an extra-parliamentary workerist organization in Italy. Antonio Negri founded the party in 1969 and was committed to the workerist goal of autonomy.
The movement would distinguish itself primarily because of the intellectual talent associated with it, and become infamous because of some of its ex-members’ association (though unfounded) with the Red Brigades.
Negri especially would come under heavy scrutiny from Italian law enforcement after the kidnapping and assassination of the Christian Democrat Aldo Moro
Some People Talk About The Weather We Don’t
Sozialistische Deutsche Studentenbund print from orIginal poster housed at the 6876 HQ and sourced in Frankfurt 1970. The SDS in Germany consisted mainly of college and university students. The SDS opposed the Vietnam war and Germany’s political involvement in it, as well as the use of nuclear weapons and objected that many former National Socialists still held influential positions in West Germany. They also wanted to advance democratic structures in all institutions, for example in schools.
Alternative lifestyles and more tolerance for same sex couples, a more open treatment of sexual topics, the right to abortion and equal rights for women. The students involved used the same methods of protest as the anti-war movement in the United States at that time, for example sit-ins and demonstrations.
Library Research sessions
Location : Brunswick Centre
Student : Ezra Brown
Photographer : Sandra Nagel
W2 T-shirt Collaboration
Unique project featuring original photography of London & Glasgow.
Custom made T-Shirts produced in the UK 240gsm, 100% organic cotton & pre-shrunk
Front co-brand screen print & digital photographic back print
London Image : Castlehaven Community centre Camden Photography Mae Mackenzie
Au Service Du Peuple
Produced as part of the 6876 Community Crowd Funder Project and now available via the website store on general release
Location The Brunswick Centre, featuring Ezra Brown of Impossible Objects
Scotland project W2 x 6876
AW 2024 we will be collaborating with https://www.w2store.co.uk/
Emerging from the culmination of the Comme des Garçons guerrilla project in 2009 the store was created by David Mullane one of the most important figures in Scottish retail dating back to The Wearhouse in the 1980’s :
From 2010 onwards W2 branched out to offer a select number of brands & in 2023 entered into a new period with new leadership:
This winter we are producing exclusive Made in Scotland bags, hats & Ties as well as unique T-shirts: Finally W2 will be the only store to stock the Trail Sonora
S24 Editorial 1
Photography Helena Exquis
Model : Oriol Gil
Location : The Brunswick
Items:
Nith & Cree Overshirts
6876 Archive Trousers & Rag Parade British Naval Fatigues
Olmetex
Olmetex established in 1954 is one of our most regular fabric suppliers having worked together for over 25 years.
Based in the Como Region in Northern Italy near the Swiss border which is an area famous for silk production.
Olmetex have supplied many specialist outerwear fabrics for us over the years and during this visit we investigated various proposals for new qualities as well confirming qualities as part of our S24 Bshop collaboration in Japan.
