When backpacks are more for function then fashion, Eastpak art studio are pushing our perception of an otherwise overlooked design opportunity. This year’s Eastpak Artist Studio has been confirmed and it includes some of the biggest names in fashion! Vêtements, Kenzo, Christopher Raeburn, Nicopanda, Ami Paris, Wanda Nylon, House of Holland, Jacquemus, Giambattista Valli, Alexandre Vauthier, and Inan have all agreed to join this unique design project in support of the charity organization, Designers Against AIDS (DAA). These celebrated designers will each create an original work of art from a “blank” Eastpak Padded Pak’r® backpack. Transforming it, in effect, into a “blank canvas” for expressing their own unique creativity and artistic vision, while raising awareness for HIV/AIDS around the globe. The creations from this year’s edition of Eastpak Artist Studio will go on sale via this website on World AIDS Day, December 1st, 2016. artiststudio.eastpak.com.
Vêtements
Kenzo
Christopher Raeburn
Nicopanda
Ami Paris
Wanda Nylon
House of Holland
Jacquemus
Giambattista Valli
Alexandre Vauthier
Inan
About Artist Studio
Ever since its launch in 2010, Eastpak Artist Studio has inspired a breath-taking array of originality and artistic creativity. Offering some of the world’s most talented and creative minds a special-edition “blank” Padded Pak’r® backpack and with it, a “blank canvas” for expressing their own personal vision. Redecorated, reconstructed, reinvented and reinterpreted, the 12 Eastpak Artist Studio artists have once again transformed Eastpak’s most iconic backpack into 12 unique works of art. To raise much needed funds for the charity organization Designers Against AIDS.
This year, some of the biggest names in the business have followed in the footsteps of Jean Paul Gauthier, Walter Van Beirendonck, Manolo Blahnik and other past contributors to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and improve the prospects for those affected by the disease around the world.
