The Thousands

ffiXXed is a collaborative art and design project that recognises the need for sustainable creative practices, delving beyond pure aesthetic to create readymade fashion products that are a pragmatic response to living arrangements. Helmed by ex-pat Australians and Internetwork contributors Kain Picken and Fiona Lau, ffiXXed is created between studios in Berlin, New York, and Hong Kong, essentially maintaining a roaming headquarters responsive to global influences.**The SS10 range Unseen Utopias is an extension of the fashion meets function concept. This is not to say your t-shirt will know how you like your eggs, or that your pants will do the walking for you (this isn’t 2017), but every piece in this cool, clean, crisp collection of linens and lightweight jerseys is intended to be wearable in an everyday sense. Then there are some playful additions like the Shopperbag Shirt, the distant relative of ffiXXed’s SS09 collaboration with BLESS, a shirt you can also carry your groceries in, and the Trench Windbreaker – all business upfront but casual windbreaker out back. This is what it means to be truly ‘smart/casual’.