Blur the boundaries

technical description

Upcycled denim jackets, t-shirts, sportswear, children clothes, business wear, product packages and labels wrapped in felt. Colour and shape details blurred in with felt, intentional round shape to blur the boundaries between each item.

concept

Designer Tomohiro Shibuki wants to rethink his own perspective of unity and continuity. His technique is based on the use of felt, which covers and harmonises things that usually exist individually. It is a reference to the environment he was born and raised in, often covered in snow, which is capable of uniting natural and human elements in a single, borderless landscape, thus radically changing our perspective on familiar views. The blurred state he creates by using felt is an opportunity to re-examine the way boundaries should be. The act of covering might look like an addition, but it is actually a subtraction of borders. Such ideas are characteristic of Japanese culture and Tomohiro’s project treads on the same path from a different perspective. It is his own personal search for unity, which erases barriers.