SPRING/SUMMER '010

Preliminary remarks

Product culture. The history of the brand, made up of technology research and experimentation. Strong reference to the military environment and all possible sports disciplines.

Stone Island Spring Summer 10

Inspirations

The study of parachutes and paratrooper uniforms to extract the details, materials and functionalities. The important heritage of industry and the workplace. The revival of functional garments of the past, giving them a new aesthetic.

Special garments and treatments

  • Heat_Reactive Bomber jacket in cotton/nylon cloth with a thermo sensible coating which changes colour at high temperatures. Above 27°C, the garment transforms, gradually changing from black to white or yellow.
  • Reverse Colour Process Blousons undergoing a special fading process on the finished garment where the original colour is still visible.
  • Carbon silk yellow jackets in carbon mixed with silk, fabric with a high-level technical characteristics and heat insulation, inspired by old parachutes.
  • Aramid fibres, high resistant fibres used in different ways. Such as piquet, together with polyester jersey, with a waterproof coating. Or alternatively, with high-tenacity garment dyed nylon.

Knitwear

Tops treated as if they were pea-coats or blazers. Boiled linen for heavy indigo garment dyed and subsequently faded tops. Rubberised linen/silk, silk/carbon detailing and corrosion.

Colours

There are two groups of colours, marking out two different environments, which intersect and exchange information.

  • Black faded black, grey, ecru, yellow and oxidised shades of yellow. Taken from metals and colours from special materials such as carbon and aramid fibres from the Kevlar® family.
  • Indigo, the application of this pigment as a base for dyeing, treating, fading or over dyeing, mixed with polyurethane solutions: creating a range of hues from navy blue to worker blue and including all the shades in between.
  • Red, from pigment, the shade expressing point of rupture.

PROJECTS BY TREVOR JACKSON

EXPRESSION

Trevor Jackson is a London-based creative who works in many fields including graphic design, art direction, moving images and installations; he also composes, remixes, produces and performs music.

Trevor Jackson Expression

Trevor has completed the special graphic research project: 5215 Stone Island Expressions. The project is based on transposing bitmap or raster (*) computer graphics onto fabric in traditional print. In bitmap graphics, by contrast to the commonly used vector graphics, the image is viewed in a grid pattern in which each element or pixel is associated with a specific colour. A series of different-coloured T-Shirts, each with modulated corrosion bitmap print of a photographic portrait of the artist himself: five “expressions” that are abstract if seen up close, but which take shape and are revealed if observed from a distance.

Note:

(*) Bitmap or raster graphics were originally based on analogue television technology, or more specifically on the term that indicates the horizontal lines (also known as scan lines) on television sets or monitors. In computer graphics, the term indicates the orthogonal grid of points that makes up a bitmap or raster image: the image is viewed as a grid pattern and each square of the grid, known as a pixel, is associated with a specific colour. Bitmap is characterised by two properties: resolution and depth of colour.

STONE ISLAND 5 POCKET

NEW PROJECT

In keeping with the functional and industrial ethos of Stone Island, the 5-Pocket Identity Program is both purposely non-decorative and non-vintage. Instead, it has been designed with the aim of achieving and exemplifying the utility, timeless authenticity, and elegance that true function embodies.

Stone Island 5-Pocket Denim

Distinguishing features:

  • The Stone Island badge, which may be applied with two buttons on the right back pocket or alternatively hidden inside the left pocket.
  • The white leather patch, derived from the concept of compass directions, reduced to its most basic form, a perpendicular X and Y axis, known in mathematics as a Cartesian coordinate system, it clearly and concisely provides details of the size, length and model.
  • Small triangular flag on front pocket.
  • Personalised rivets and buttons.