Sported by socialists, adopted by students and seized on by skinheads, the donkey jacket isn't the obvious candidate for the next menswear trend. But times have changed, and designers can always relied on to spruce up an old idea, no matter how humble its origins. Sachiko Okada and Aaron Sharif of the British label BLAAK were quick to nominate thier twist on the donkey jacket as the key piece from their a/w 09 collection, Man vs Machine.
At the very beginning of designing Spring Summer 2010 collection, we made masks to encapsulate the essence of what the collection will be. We already had the title " Somewhere between Voodoo and Hindu " which was a quote we came across researching Haiti. Masks were made of found branches, nuts & bolts, leather code, shells all mixed. From here we had the idea of electroforming (metalized) the objects in silver and gold, which we then made neck pieces for the show.