fashion excerpt: The North Face Purple Label Fall.Winter 2025/26 - Exclusive to Japan Lookbook

 

"..So, can we rework fashion back to it source? By redefining it from the streets, without looking at our phones to see what everyone else is wearing?  Better still, try and reject what everybody is wearing and not care at all.  Can you do it?  Can we be inspired from the effortless ones, who aren't essentially trying to be effortless? Is that you?

Nanamica is very much that quintessential utility/streetwear wear brand, from Tokyo, Japan, to which the a lot of Japanese youth still like to adorn the mountaineering look, in all of its polished reflection.  Rather than hiking Mount Fuji, and looking wartorn, you'd be hanging out at "Club Harlem" in Tokyo, listening to a Japanese version of Memphis phonk hip-hop, while tripping on 'legal' LSD (you'll have to look that up).  The Nanamica collaboration with the North Face brand name, might just be the attire suitable for that night..."

(A.Glass 2025)  

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-north-face-purple-label-fallwinter.html