“A bizarre travelogue into dramatic architecture” by National Forest.

National Forest is a graphic studio formed by American artists Steven Harrington and Justin Krietemeyer.

For our time-scanning Autumn/Winter 09 line, they designed a very specific capsule-collection homage to Superstudio’s Fundamental Acts series.

Created from 1971 to 1973, the “Fundamental Acts” were a series of 5 experimental movies centred on the relations between architecture as a conscious formalization of the planet, and human life.

The whole series was based on Gustav Freytag’s classical dramatic structure. Each video made a natural progression into the following five acts:

-The exposition

-The rising action

-The climax (or turning point)

-The falling action

-The Catastrophe

National Forest has adapted this dramatic pyramid structure to our clothing line.

The line is composed of five surprising and radical pieces: Life-Youth-Ceremony-Love- Death.

With this new collection, National Forest has showed us a new and darker side of their work:

“A bizarre travelogue into dramatic architecture”

The line is now available online here.