The air in San Francisco on a cloudy May day is crisp and predictably cool.

We wanted to collaborate… just for the love of doing it.

We did months and months of fastener research and button research before we even started drawing anything.

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COLOR CODED“I was trying to develop colors that felt somehowinevitable,” Ive says. Model Ajok Daing wears the LoveFrom, Moncler poncho.Photographed by Thurstan Redding.

This is more of a concept than a collection.

The most important thing is curiosity

Ives other great ambition for the project?

Achieving a seamless, one-piece cut for each garment.

[But] at every stage, where there were those challenges, there wasnt a gritting of teeth.

I find it very hard to disconnect color from material, Ive says.

Why are we still living with a round button and a slot?

Its because you know it works and you dont have to do all this.

Who among usfashion-obsessed or otherwisedoesnt want that?

But if we stopped working together now, I would be profoundly upset.

Produced by theArcade Production.

Set design: Samuel Overs.