I am a simple guy, I like simple things. Essentials. By professional deformation then I am very (very very) detail-oriented, so beware: simple does not necessarily mean trivial. And-trust me-designing something simple-but-made-good often takes much more time and dedication.
Thanks to because of the evolution of printing and production techniques today we can make technical clothing with any graphics, almost without any limitations. In my opinion the trouble is that we often lose sight of the goal and confuse I can do it with is a good idea to do it.
So-in total contrast to the market-my prized possession today is the FAR Running tank top, a garment that wouldn’t look out of place on the good Pietro Mennea.
FAR is a Spanish brand, from Barcelona. They are small, like almost all the brands I love, and they do things right, too. What I really like about FAR is that from the beginning it has had a clear and defined vision: to offer technically advanced running apparel but with the aesthetics of its origins. I could say vintage but basically that would be wrong: vintage is in fashion today and maybe it won’t be in fashion tomorrow, here we are talking about removing everything superfluous and a return to the essentials. Not forgetting the maniacal attention to detail.
We find this design line in all the collections: in the cut, in the fit, and of course in the color choices.
It is then only a few days ago that the Limited Edition TOKYO 2021 was released. The essentiality of the Japanese palette reigns supreme throughout the collection, and in this case the most deserving detail is certainly the red Tokyo Running Romance vignette.
Long live the singlet
What I have seen in the very last few years is a great comeback of the singlet even in the world of us amateurs, who for a very long time have been “hiding” inside more or less baggy jerseys: ragged tails of the 1990s, which I love anyway (the 1990s, not baggy jerseys).
So long live the singlet, long live the simple things. Oh, I forgot, they also make delicious socks-you know we can never have enough running socks.