Menswear Capsule Collection by Bureau V

Founded in 2007, Bureau V designs architecture and experimental projects ranging from cultural and commercial work to performances, installations, and events. The studio is led by three partners, Stella Lee, Laura Trevino, and Peter Zuspan.

Bureau V’s capsule collection takes as its point of departure 19th century German architect Gottfried Semper’s Stoffwechseltheorie , a historical theory that describes how forms derived from material-specific practices often shift into other materials, creating valuable lingering forms that bear no material justification.

The collection expands upon this theory from material practices to utility at large. Taking extreme performance-driven forms (such as bicycle bib shorts  and fisherman’s waders), the collection shifts both the clothing’s material and its context, removing much of its utility, and thereby re-contextualizing  material formal artifact as sculptural gesture.

The collection is presented by BYCO, a tech-platform for design, which has an ongoing project to collaborate with designers to create work outside of their respective discipline.

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Menswear Capsule Collection by Bureau V