Re-issue of US Army WW2 Mountain Pants from 1944.
6 years in the making / 2017–2023
Updated by hamansutra with all the secrets, details and transformations. Available in Denim Blue and Military Olive. The first product run hits New York City. Only in New York City!
Created Exclusively on Union Special Machines and Made in Germany from Italian Denim
Check out my worldwide online shop with a mix of in-stock and custom-produced products.
BUY
QUICKSHOP.NYC
Photography
Jan Frommel
© 100% hamansutra
Re-issue of US Army WW2 Mountain Pants from 1944.
6 years in the making / 2017–2023
Updated by hamansutra with all the secrets, details and transformations. Available in Denim Blue and Military Olive. The first product run hits New York City. Only in New York City!
Created Exclusively on Union Special Machines and Made in Germany from Italian Denim
Check out my worldwide online shop with a mix of in-stock and custom-produced products.
BUY
QUICKSHOP.NYC
Photography
Jan Frommel
© 100% hamansutra
CMYK “10th Anniversary“
CMYK SHOES BY HAMANSUTRA “10th Anniversary“
The CMYK Shoe by hamansutra is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2022, but the artfully designed shoes are kicking off once again as a remastered limited edition of just 60 pairs. The concept behind the unisex CMYK Shoe is that each detail represents one of hamansutra’s most treasured art forms: the style, in soft cowskin with a thin, comfortable sole, is inspired by traditional dance shoes, while the stereo mini-jacks for laces are an ode to his work as an internationally acclaimed D.J. CMYK debuted in New York City in 2011 and was hailed by the press, with the New York Times trumpeting them as “Stepping to the Beat”. Now the CMYK Shoe by hamansutra is heading back to its roots. The trendy, innovative yet timeless “communication-based fusion of fashion and sound”, in hamansutra’s own words, will release today on the designer’s online shop QUICKSHOP.NYC at a retail price of EUR 279.00. Recrafted takes on CMYK’s colorways will also follow in the future. If you don’t see the shoe size in the colour you want, check out other colours. No sizes shown means that shoe colour is sold out. No time to lose! Click to buy and your shoes will be on their way – worldwide.
–> Don’t think twice – it’s all right!
Photography Jan Frommel
CMYK SHOES BY HAMANSUTRA “10th Anniversary“
The CMYK Shoe by hamansutra is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2022, but the artfully designed shoes are kicking off once again as a remastered limited edition of just 60 pairs. The concept behind the unisex CMYK Shoe is that each detail represents one of hamansutra’s most treasured art forms: the style, in soft cowskin with a thin, comfortable sole, is inspired by traditional dance shoes, while the stereo mini-jacks for laces are an ode to his work as an internationally acclaimed D.J. CMYK debuted in New York City in 2011 and was hailed by the press, with the New York Times trumpeting them as “Stepping to the Beat”. Now the CMYK Shoe by hamansutra is heading back to its roots. The trendy, innovative yet timeless “communication-based fusion of fashion and sound”, in hamansutra’s own words, will release today on the designer’s online shop QUICKSHOP.NYC at a retail price of EUR 279.00. Recrafted takes on CMYK’s colorways will also follow in the future. If you don’t see the shoe size in the colour you want, check out other colours. No sizes shown means that shoe colour is sold out. No time to lose! Click to buy and your shoes will be on their way – worldwide.
–> Don’t think twice – it’s all right!
Photography Jan Frommel
Long Live The McQueen
“When I gave Alexander McQueen my pants”
After 9/11 2001, hamansutra met Alexander McQueen for an interview in London. The two women there as showroom managers were pretty unfriendly, and one of them even mocked haman’s British English street slang. Lee McQueen had been on the lookout for classic tailors able to perform tasks like hand-stitching eyelet buttonholes. But there was nothing free for the 22-year-old haman and they never worked together. And yet McQueen told haman, “We’re the same. Creative. I can see it in your sketchbooks.” Lee Alexander McQueen accepted haman’s German military pants and original sketch as a gift, with a hand-written dedication. Haman had the pants for a long time, good quality industrial manufacture, cheap, not trendy, a German-made product. The quality used to be better, but production moved abroad after the Second World War. A picture showing Lee Alexander McQueen actually wearing the military pants in his studio, has now been used for the cover of “Alexander McQueen – The Life and the Legacy” by Judith Watt, a globally published examination of the designer. The location of the picture was Amwell Street, London, near Angel in Islington, where McQueen lived within walking distance of his studio. Central St Martins College from the late 90s to 2010 was Alexander McQueen’s best time. If he were alive today he would still be the Number One. He went his own way and had his associates, who brought him up but also dragged him down – like the corporation that owned 51% of his company. The deaths of Isabella Blow and his mother were bitter blows; he was also under pressure from Gucci Group to deliver more commercial designs. A hoodie with the McQueen logo? Never! And yet he was an irreplaceable role model to us as St. Martins graduates. He shaped and formed us; we grew up surrounded by his superhuman energy and took on the responsibility and the pressure to match his quality, imposed by the same college and tutors. After his death in 2010 hamansutra decided to delete all his social media accounts. The news was like a physical blow, it caused complete numbness. Sometimes you wonder how people like that got to be so good – but take Alexander McQueen: I know that after CSM closed every day, he would hide under the tables in the pattern room to carry on working on his collection at night. It’s pretty sad that nobody can respect Alexander McQueen’s wishes and close the house. People and Gucci Group should have respected his wishes. They are too money hungry to care! Sad that creativity and industry can’t walk together for long. However, Lee McQueen made you dream, made you hopeful, made you love life…made you love fashion…he made us love art. His death was the culmination of his art. Rest in Paradise, brother.
Re-issue of the German Military Pants / Updated by Hamansutra
Available in 2020 at quickshop.nyc
10TH REMEMBRANCE YEAR
IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
(* 1969 – 2010)
Lee Alexander Mcqueen
alexandermcqueen.com
Photography
derricksantini.com
BUY
QUICKSHOP.NYC
“When I gave Alexander McQueen my pants”
After 9/11 2001, hamansutra met Alexander McQueen for an interview in London. The two women there as showroom managers were pretty unfriendly, and one of them even mocked haman’s British English street slang. Lee McQueen had been on the lookout for classic tailors able to perform tasks like hand-stitching eyelet buttonholes. But there was nothing free for the 22-year-old haman and they never worked together. And yet McQueen told haman, “We’re the same. Creative. I can see it in your sketchbooks.” Lee Alexander McQueen accepted haman’s German military pants and original sketch as a gift, with a hand-written dedication. Haman had the pants for a long time, good quality industrial manufacture, cheap, not trendy, a German-made product. The quality used to be better, but production moved abroad after the Second World War. A picture showing Lee Alexander McQueen actually wearing the military pants in his studio, has now been used for the cover of “Alexander McQueen – The Life and the Legacy” by Judith Watt, a globally published examination of the designer. The location of the picture was Amwell Street, London, near Angel in Islington, where McQueen lived within walking distance of his studio. Central St Martins College from the late 90s to 2010 was Alexander McQueen’s best time. If he were alive today he would still be the Number One. He went his own way and had his associates, who brought him up but also dragged him down – like the corporation that owned 51% of his company. The deaths of Isabella Blow and his mother were bitter blows; he was also under pressure from Gucci Group to deliver more commercial designs. A hoodie with the McQueen logo? Never! And yet he was an irreplaceable role model to us as St. Martins graduates. He shaped and formed us; we grew up surrounded by his superhuman energy and took on the responsibility and the pressure to match his quality, imposed by the same college and tutors. After his death in 2010 hamansutra decided to delete all his social media accounts. The news was like a physical blow, it caused complete numbness. Sometimes you wonder how people like that got to be so good – but take Alexander McQueen: I know that after CSM closed every day, he would hide under the tables in the pattern room to carry on working on his collection at night. It’s pretty sad that nobody can respect Alexander McQueen’s wishes and close the house. People and Gucci Group should have respected his wishes. They are too money hungry to care! Sad that creativity and industry can’t walk together for long. However, Lee McQueen made you dream, made you hopeful, made you love life…made you love fashion…he made us love art. His death was the culmination of his art. Rest in Paradise, brother.
Re-issue of the German Military Pants / Updated by Hamansutra
Available in 2020 at quickshop.nyc
10TH REMEMBRANCE YEAR
IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
(* 1969 – 2010)
Lee Alexander Mcqueen
alexandermcqueen.com
Photography
derricksantini.com
BUY
QUICKSHOP.NYC
