The Taiwanese street brand REMIX will be led by the new blood design team in 2021, announcing that REMIX’s worldview has entered a new chapter again. This season, Streetwear has been infused with more functional and cold elements, regardless of the various materials and structures. The ratio of application or image configuration brings a refreshing look.
The REMIX 2021 Spring/Summer Series Lookbook was handed over to the highly anticipated photographer Den Mambo in recent years, presenting the rebellion and agitation of Taipei’s Rave culture from a consistent magical and realistic perspective. During the 17 years of working on the ground, REMIX has always maintained a close connection with the street-related culture. In addition to the mainstream American and Japanese styles recognized by the public, it has tried to explore richer sub-cultural aspects, and gradually extended the product line to truly lifestyle. Dimensions, continue to explore more possibilities as a “brand”.
And HYPEBEAST also exclusively contacted Lucas, who was the latest design director of REMIX, and he revealed to us more about the creative process of this series, word by word, so that everyone can better understand and approach the original ideas and original intentions, and let the outside world know more about REMIX. New approach for the future.
Lucas: “In this image, I hope to use my friends to talk about “Why not have fun while working at home during the epidemic?” Maybe doing strange things in my own small space, creating in the studio, and on the balcony. Studying lying in a daze, practicing cooking a new meal at home, dancing to the music, practicing DJ on the top floor of my house, etc. Although there are no parties now, I hope everyone can enjoy music at home, enrich themselves, and spend time safely.”
“REMIX has always been a Taiwanese street brand with Streetwear and Lifestyle as the main axis. I want to bring into the core elements of REMIX through party culture, and try to use some contrasting elements and symbols to describe the various aspects of the party from many angles. Style, the party can be in a certain underground space, deep mountain outdoors, sunset seaside, urban ruins, friends’ homes, or even virtual live broadcast. The interesting place is that many different and diverse people gather in a field to enjoy the moment. The atmosphere and sound together look forward to the ingenious relationship between people and the various collisions brought about by music.”
“In clothing, we hope to create many good-fitting and styling items. The emphasis is also on strong colors, symbols, editing, functional structures, etc., and bring out many neutral items. Try to extract new perspectives and fun from the party culture, while also bringing a new look to REMIX.”
“This series of images is specially designed to work hand in hand with photographer Den Mambo. When I first discussed with Mambo, I actually had a very interesting plan A, but due to the epidemic, I had to call a timeout. After a while I found that there was no improvement in the short-term, so I had to start implementing the current plan B. With this lookbook “Why can’t we have fun during the quarantine?” I now found that it is also very Raver spirit.”
In addition to collaborating with Den Mambo, many new generations of young faces have been found this season, including Wagner, Thomas, Brian Lai, 47, Yun-Pei Hsiung, Miss Jing Stamps and Rickey Yuun, each of whom has expanded their careers to DJs, design Teachers, artists, models and other diverse fields, the various wild horses hidden in their minds, may be an important foundation for the construction of future generations.
REMIX has been deeply cultivated in Taiwan’s street culture for 17 years. The impact of its close connection can be described as extraordinary, and it is an important memory of some generations. As the wheel of time progresses, the way its footprints are left will also be different. After the new team joins, we look at the party culture that the younger generation loves and focus more on, extracting the essence from it and supplementing it with the enduring street spirit of REMIX but enough to keep up with the times, and then create a completely new time. Cultural landscape.
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