At.Kollektive Rebrands, Names New Collaborators

Since 2022, Netherlands-based tannery Ecco Leather-based, provider to high luxurious labels and father or mother firm Ecco Group’s namesake shoe model, has introduced in casts of creatives to design for its collaborative undertaking aimed toward elevating consciousness for the fabric’s potential, At.Kollektive. For its fifth season, the undertaking will get a brand new title — Ecco.Kollektive — and embody work from British menswear designer Craig Inexperienced, Christa Bösch and Cosima Gadient, the duo behind Berlin-based womenswear line Ottolinger and French menswear designer Louis Gabriel Nouchi.

The gathering, which incorporates sneakers, equipment and ready-to-wear, can be offered at males’s week in Paris on June 20. Inexperienced’s designs for Ecco.Kollektive can even be proven in his Spring/Summer time 2025 presentation in London on June 5. Prior Ecco collaborators embody Kiko Kostadinov, Bianca Saunders, Peter Do and Nina Christen.

Inexperienced’s designs are extra informal, menswear merchandise. Ottolinger’s items are female and make leather-based look totally different than customers are used to, whereas Nouchi twists leather-based in a approach that makes it seem extra premium, mentioned Panos Mytaros, CEO of Ecco. The gathering can be obtainable on the undertaking’s website and choose retailers together with Ssense, Nordstrom and Kith Tokyo from November, with costs beginning at €225 ($244).

Mytaros mentioned the title change represents a maturation of the programme and was pushed by a need to make the tie to Ecco extra clear.

“The purpose was to unite all the pieces we do beneath one umbrella … and put much more emphasis on [the fact that] there may be this powerhouse behind this, and the title is Ecco,” mentioned Mytaros.

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Netherlands-based producer Ecco Leather-based additionally tapped designers Kostas Murkudis and Isaac Reina to discovered AT.Kollektive, a brand new design undertaking that goals to focus on the artistic potential of leather-based.