Abstract Sunset Mohair Vest

"Wouldn't it be beautiful if the whole body could be a sunset?" Thats what Kota Gushiken thinks about when thinking of what to design next. The purple colourway is made to represent the twilight hour of a sunset. 

This V-neck vest is a work of art and truly one of a kind. 

Kota explains "When I start designing a collection, I always go back and look through the photos I’ve
taken over the previous six months. When I did that this time, I realised I had photos of sunsets from all over the place — Setagaya, Shibuya, Aoyama, Tomigaya, Yokohama, Ichinomiya, Paris, Bali, and even one
taken on the flight back from Egypt. It made me realise, again, that I really love sunsets.

Looking at all those images together reminded me of J.M.W. Turner’s paintings. I decided to make a sunset knit, using both the sunsets I’ve seen myself and Turner’s sunset paintings as references.

After a lot of trial and error trying to express that in knit, I ended up using 45 different yarns in a single piece — some slightly different in colour, some returning to the same tone again.

When I explained this idea to the yarn supplier, he just said, “That’s insane.” He helped me so much in making it happen — I’m truly grateful to him."

Made in Japan
Machine knit and hand brushed