Excerpt: WHITE MOUNTAINEERING. SPRING 2023.

 "...Yet, I feel there is a dichotomy with the looks presented.  Some of the styles offer a Yamabushi monk idealism of the Japanese mountain worshippers, who pilgrimage through rough and picturesque alp ranges, seeking enlightenment from the raw conditions to be reborn.  While other pieces in the collection encapsulates Aizawa's commercialised benchmark with the White Mountaineering brand name, as he continues on with his associations with corporate entitles, this time with the conglomerate brand Vans.   So, there does seem to be a push-and-pull between Aizawa refining his brand White Mountaineering into a more ritualistic affair and his impressive backlog of collaborations with conglomerate brand names.  At some point, I do wonder if Aizawa will find that balance between the two contradictions within all of its duality?"

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Full review:https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/08/white-mountaineering-spring-2023.html

(A.Glass 2022)