Oxford shirt as an object launching in a couple weeks. Available standard brand monogram or customizable text. Mother of pearl buttons upgrade available. Cut and sewn for Benjamin Edgar in India.
Hanger in Stainless Steel—Design inspired by references to weight savings engineering techniques in machined metal parts to create something almost completely useless but fascinating to hold. $700, available now.
"A moment." — New
@THEBRILLIANCE
post/story on
@virgilabloh
's first Louis Vuitton show, cold emails, blogging, the first time we hung out, and the Wapity bag.
"Happy New Year." If you do decide to open "The X Issue," though, you might find a story I wrote about
@benjaminedgar
called Outside the Box.
More life, more everything™✨
Black Lives Matter. To be silent right now is now longer acceptable. I don’t have answers, but I offer my solidarity, voice, and help. Before, now and forever.
Current productivity hack (lol, but I need them): Open my laptop with like 16% battery and no charger and be like: “You have to complete this design, idea, document, etc and email it before your computer dies”...and honestly it kinda works.
Hanger in Clear Polished Acrylic—The initial marble hanger set the tone/became the “logo” of every object I make. Concept was always a cheap white t-shirt hanging on an almost boring hanger made in an avant garde/exceptional material. $50, available now.
The best part about all this Prouvé Vitra via
@virgilabloh
stuff is that it’s the *exact* same sensibilities as skateboarding/streetwear logo-flips we all grew up with.
BENJAMIN EDGAR x
@HYPEBEAST
Mag, # 20. Crazy. Super thanks for the massive feature. Unexpected. I work on so many disparate projects, was an honor to be in the issue and have
@broazay
better explain what I do than I can personally. Having
@virgilabloh
on the cover was nice too.
“For me, design is about whatever I find is worthy to tell a story about. I don’t believe that culture benefits from the idea that this line on a piece of paper has never been drawn in this exact way ever before.” -
@virgilabloh
“All The Way Through” Cheap Souvenir Scarf — Using the new “all the way through” framework in a perfectly simple, “cheap” souvenir / soccer scarf. Idea was almost to make a wearable bumper sticker with this piece. Unfussy and perhaps even a bit funny.
AVAILABLE NOW. BENJAMIN EDGAR for VANS VAULT. An exaggeration of the two fundamental elements that have made a pair of Vans what they are since 1966: canvas and vulcanized rubber.
“You have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does...or else you’re going to make the same connections.” - Steve Jobs (Me feeling lucky to be in Paris, seeing / working on / doing things I haven’t done before.)
“I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is.” - Ray/Charles Eames