How my favorite designer appeared in Hobbs and Shaw

Have you ever visited Hobbs and Shaw ? This is the latest installment of the franchise Fast and Furious a fallout of Vanessa Kirby, Jason Statham, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Idris Elba, and it is devilishly good when it comes to movies crazy action in the summer. Now, I know what you think: he really does not like that because he has great cars. But here's a secret: I'm much more in love with how everyone is dressed in the movie.

Much of the credit goes to Sarah Evelyn, the costume designer of the film. But there is another influence at work in the wardrobe department, the technical clothing luminary Errolson Hugh. Hugh was nicknamed "the favorite designer of your favorite designer", although, more recently, you may have known him for launching the bottle cap challenge earlier this summer.

It is fair to say that Hugh's attitude towards design, especially with his Acronym label, is uncompromising. . In fact, it reminds me a lot of Gordon Murray's approach to designing the McLaren F1. Like Murray, Hugh 's work relies on the latest technologies. But instead of ultra-lightweight composites (the McLaren F1 was the first production car to be made entirely of carbon fiber), they are state-of-the-art fabrics manufactured by companies like Schoeller, Gore and Nextec.

Of course, it's not just clever textiles: you can use them while making clothes that will help you blend in. you know, stuff looking normal. Acronym is perhaps the only place where you can dress up, acronym, at a conference for the ninjas of the space of the future, which probably drew Evelyn to her work. But we are not talking here about cosplay outfits – the form follows the function and every detail has its reason to be. Pbadionate martial artist, Hugh often badigns his first karate gi to the inspiration of his motives that restrict your movement as little as possible, as shown by a series of videos "Acronymjutsu" that are the closest to advertising.

I thought that an acronym would appear in Hobbs and Shaw when the first trailer showed our eponymous heroes wearing suits. These included a rather distinctive pocket style, almost identical to those found on a pair of Acronym P24A pants. (All of Acronym's designs carry alphanumeric designations rather than names.) And, although a big-budget action movie was the last place where I expected that the ## 147 ## The label appears, it was not so exaggerated. Statham is a leading supporter, alongside William Gibson, John Mayer and the late Robin Williams (yes, really).

Hobbs and Shaw, as well as Shaw's sister, get a wardrobe outfit after visiting Madam M, a Russian friend. Shaw who helps the trio in their plan to enter the HQ of the wicked. First, there are these tailored suits; Once on the ground, our heroes remain faithful to the technology. After all, who does not want to look like a ninja from space? In fact, the techwear look extends to the evil scientists and the evil group muscles Eteon, although Idris Elba's transhuman villain, Brixton, owes much more to motocross.

I had to know for sure. designer based on. Here's what he said:

"Everything happened because Jason got into the wardrobe someday and that he got air to say, "Oh, I know this guy. "We were on the mood boards for a lot of things, but they were motivated and really wanted us to do the main suits for Jason and Dwayne, everything was super smooth, we sent patterns and materials and they were built all the iterations, they needed 15 of each in about five weeks, I do not know at all how they did it. "

The Statham ensemble was almost strictly available. "Statham rocked P10As and a J73 with an armband! It was superb and perfectly sized," Hugh said. This has probably helped that the actor already knows his size; for his substantial costar, they had to be a little more creative. This black vest is the one designed by Hugh for the Stone Island Shadow Project, modified to fit The Rock. "Dwayne's vest was a re-enactment – we only had mediums – and his trousers had been rearranged into extra-wide P24As," he said.

As techwear enthusiasts already know, wearing a lot of black water-resistant fabric works pretty well when it's cold and wet, but less so when the climate becomes tropical. So it's not really a surprise if, by the time our film comes to an end in Samoa, our heroes are back in more normal outfits. But it does not matter. Not all cars in the movie can be a McLaren 720S either.

Image illustrated by Universal Pictures