Izutsu Funzoe Brocade Collection
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About (Overview)
• Looks like trendy camouflage but actually an historic Japanese Buddhist priest robe pattern worn for more than 1200 years.
• Pattern designed in collaboration with European fashion designers, designed to be chic and sophisticated camouflage.
• Fine silk fabric is woven on a special loom that makes fabric for Japanese summer priest robes.
Product Details/Story
This collection is a collaboration with Izutsu Textiles, an historic Kyoto textile house that has been in business since 1705. Izutsu has been making and selling finely woven silk and gold brocade for Buddhist priest robes, temple tapestries, traditional court costume and so on for more than 300 years.
Funzoe is a traditional Japanese priest robe pattern that is based on Buddhist Master, Kukai’s worn-out and heavily patched robe which he wore some 1200 years ago. Interestingly funzoe looks like trendy, contemporary camouflage but it has actually been a part of Japanese textile culture for over a millennium.
This sublimely chic collection was unveiled abroad in Paris at Maison et Objet, 2015.