The White Mountaineering fall 2023 menswear collection is here. See every look:
In the three years since White Mountaineering last showed a collection in Paris, Yosuke Aizawa’s life has fundamentally changed. Over the course of the pandemic, he built himself a house in the middle of a forest in the mountains outside Nagano, Japan—a refined mix of raw concrete and polished wood, with double-height glass windows and a huge roaring fire, as per a series of pictures on his iPhone which he shyly showed this reporter backstage.
Time apart from the fashion industry has strengthened Aizawa’s resolve to create clothes that can handle the dual demands of urban and pastoral. It has also afforded him an opportunity to pore over imagery by his friend Naoki Ishikawa, the Japanese climber, writer and photographer. In 2012, Ishikawa successfully summited Manaslu in Nepal, the eighth-highest mountain in the world. Ten years later, he summited for a second time, documenting his trip in a series of evocative images.
Fresh off the back of a successful collaboration with Uniqlo in November, and a second link-up with Italian performancewear label Colmar, which sees Aizawa take on a creative consultant role for the brand’s premium Revolution line, White Mountaineering is riding high on a wave of wider recognition. It’s longer a niche label for gorpcore devotees and Japanophiles, and Aizawa was clearly feeling confident backstage.
In evidence throughout was Aizawa’s savvy collaborative mindset—Nepal-inspired knitwear two-pieces were paired with Vans; earth-toned Colmar puffers and Gramicci technical cargos were shown with Merrell hiking boots or Danner suede lace-up walking boots—which gave the whole thing a wonderfully wearable authenticity. You could see any one of these pieces becoming a wardrobe staple for biting winter weekends or casual Fridays.
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