‘From winter in Canada to spring in China’: a first for Canada Goose
First revealed during Chinese designer Angel Chen’s SS21 runway presentation at Shanghai Fashion Week in October, Canada Goose has released its first ever capsule collection, an exclusive 13-piece collaboration with Ms Chen.
Executive vice president of product at Canada Goose, Woody Blackford, commented on the launch: “Over the years, we have worked with some of the world’s best. This season, we introduce a new type of partnership with Angel Chen, our first guest designer.
“In our approach, we look for unique and creative perspectives, drawing inspiration from distinct aesthetics that challenge us. Our brief is to reinterpret and reimagine our core design DNA through their eyes. Ms Chen has done just that, putting her signature spin on our most iconic products,” Mr Blackford continued.
Boldly rendered in vivid pinks and red, as well as in black and white, Ms Chen has designed boxy, multipurpose silhouettes for mixing and matching. The men’s and women’s Snow Mantra parka can reportedly be styled upside down (as seen on the runway in Shanghai) or zipped off and worn in multiple, deconstructed ways, for example.
“Canada Goose is iconic - the reference for outerwear in the world - and it was so exciting to work with their heritage pieces, reinterpreting them through a new lens for this collection, which represents the transition from winter in Canada to spring in China,” Ms Chen said.
For this reason, high-performance Canada Goose fabrics have been selected for meeting with varying weather conditions: Arctic tech for the Snow Mantra parkas, a bomber jacket, vest and crossbody bags (for a Canadian winter, for instance); Tri-durance for two rain jackets (the ‘plum’ rainy season in China, perhaps); merino wool for knits (to be layered) and recycled feathers and light ripstop for a (versatile) down jacket.
Image: Angel Chen/Canada Goose via Instagram.
