C.P. Company SS84 Nylon Jacket

Size: No tag fit L (p2p: 63cm/lengths: 67cm)
Color: Red
Year: 1984
Condition: 8,5/10 (little hole see picture)

Whilst C.P. Company has, over the years, most commonly been associated with the use of natural fibres and colour palettes, nylon garment dyeing was in fact first experimented with in Osti’s mid-1980s C.P. Company collections. The first impetus to experiment with garment dyeing 100% nylon tabrics (Osti had already begun pertecting C.P. Company’s signature material 50 Fill, a cotton warp, nylon weft fabric) came from the discovery of an interesting wrinkled Japanese nylon used in the Autumn/Winter 1983-84 collection. Adriano Caccia explains how, upon sourcing the original Japanese fabric, Osti immediately asked him to try to produce a version of it for that season, but despite various experiments Caccia was unable to replicate the wrinkle effect that interested Osti. By the following season though Caccia and Osti finally arrived at a technique for loosely drying the nylon garment after dyeing that allowed him to replicate the effect of the original.

After these first experiments, with the exception of Moreno Ferrari’s use of the material in his last collections (but without garment dyeing techniques), the material only returned to C.P. collections in a serious and research-driven garment dyed form in Spring/Summer 2006 with Pungetti’s introduction of high-tenacity nylons. By garment dyeing HT nylons C.P. Company was able to exalt the characteristic irregularity or the surface of this pure performance material. When Paul Harvey began designing C.P. Company together with Pungetti in 2013, this experimentation continued, taking far more numerous and complex forms, benefiting from Harvey’s particular passion for the fibre as well as a general market shift towards demand for performance-driven urban clothing.

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