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

Messages Bag

“The Messages or going to get the messages”

Scottish phrase meaning to go and buy Groceries 

6876 Tote bag with unique construction including outside pocket.

This style has been made in Scotland using Hainsworth Fabric from the company archive.

The quality is a British Army wool Barathea; comprising of a worsted weave which is a process differing to a highly woollen produced fabric.

Barathea is versatile, with elegant drape and exceptional handle. Due to its coarse texture, the fabric has natural recovery abilities and quickly returns back to its natural shape.

Photography : Daniel Jenkins of Purposeful Activity

https://www.purposeful-activity.com/

 

Scotland Project

April 2024 we visited a new factory in Scotland

The factory is based in Dunfermline Fife and we will be making Luggage and outerwear at this facility using Scottish based Fabric suppliers

Autumn & Winter 2023

BShop Japan project : Ventile Duror Jacket , Printed Lambswool Tartan scarfs , Le Tricoteur Knitwear  and a classic Brady bag reimagined. Primarily available in Japan, with a very small amount on request  from 6876.

Fullwood Jacket : Distinctive outerwear style with 4 angled pockets; manufactured utilising cotton/nylon aged ripstop with a dry wax finish.

Scotland Project : Thompson Jacket in two colours of herringbone dry wax and The Isla Jacket  produced in heavy organic cotton proofed ripstop with wool thermal lining

Wild Bunch styles : suede boots with Vibram soles continuing  the longstanding relationship with founder Neil Morris

Orea Overshirt : New version in 40z denim and check poplin tartan lining.

Plus more surprises

 

Scotland Project

Visit to the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland.

We are developing product sourced and manufactured within a twenty five mile radius as part of a new Scottish initiative.

We will be featuring our resources, partners and the artistic community in Scotland :

Image St Pauls Glenrothes

Architects : Gillespie, Kidd & Coia

 

Scotland Project : Peter Scott

Peter Scott is a Scottish artist & shares our appreciation of Modernism.

This led to a series of works of Cadogan Square Glasgow which have been reimagined as T-shirt graphics and will take the form of a limited edition range; however we will let Peter outline in his own words.

‘I draw buildings, particularly buildings that remind of me of times in my life and the objects and experiences I associate them with.  These times are always tied to music and politics, like an Adam Curtis documentary I endeavour to make work like a collage of contexts. 

Any aesthetic I use to create the image is an attempt to base the image in the era I associate it with.  Basic colour schemes and the halftones resonate with the brutalist concrete landscapes, a modernist utopia.  The idea of what happened lurks beneath, through the failure of our society turning them into a symbol of dystopia. Lord Anthony Jackets, Judge Dread comic books, Threads on the TV, The Smiths, New Order, My brothers Mullet and bad metal albums,  Thatcher, The falklands, My Dads Renault and cords with Clarks shoes. 

 Getting older and wiser and listening to Bowies New Career in New Town and Jon Hopkins or some Mogwai and thinking back to Shoe gaze and my brothers record collection changing from Anthrax to The The Fall and Spacemen three via Pink Floyd then the Summer of Love then  High School and not going to school but buying a ten deck and getting a bus into town.  That’s where these works come from and more.  There’s always something beautiful in boredom”.