The theme of sacai's 2016-17 Autumn/Winter men's collection is LIFÉ. A sweatshirt hoodie featuring a logo evocative of Sly & the Family Stone's third album, released in 1968, and Kenji Ozawa's second album, LIFE, released in 1994, with the addition of "I = love" is featured as an iconic inner layer. The collection highlights the new men's fashion of the sampling age. A Chesterfield coat is spliced into the hood of a royal navy parka, a Melton duffle coat is cut into mouton, and a Melton Chesterfield coat is mixed with a sheepskin aviator jacket. Regimental stripes are arranged on coats, jackets, and pants in materials such as mouton, knitwear, and jersey, and a rider's jacket alternates between leather and suede.

Like DJs going back-to-back, items, materials, patterns and colors are pieced together in the party space of sacai, with military and workwear, mod and preppy, punk and ethnic styles all remixed with unexpected ideas to delight the wearer. And on the feet are sneakers and military boots handcrafted by Hender Scheme, a leading brand in Made in Japan.

Sacai's conceptual approach of connecting highly digitalized subcultures on the axis of fashion sets it apart from Western luxury street brands that are being reconstructed based on hip-hop, and like its women's line, it continues to evolve as a down-to-earth brand that represents Tokyo.

Text: Noda Tatsuya