/Charles Yakob is born out of nowhere in the middle of something. Created for the International Talent Support contest in Italy 2015, CY is the story of a meeting. A meeting of two mutual passions that find each other an unanticipated partnership, bound by spirit, honour, loyalty and freedom. Charles and Yakob
intersect tradition and handcraft, while paying homage to the moral code of the modern female spirit. The collection is a homage to the Japanese samurai, inspired by warrior armour. Honouring codes of ritual, dedication and respect, this collection uses traditional weaving, cross-stitching and hand-knotting techniques in leather skins and silks. It is a contemporary proposition that reinterpreted ancestral clothes, an armour to conquer the present. /Photo by maxyme g. delisle