Damska koszulka rowerowa STARSHOT Trikot Lullaby | RETRO CYCLING
Damska koszulka rowerowa STARSHOT Trikot Lullaby
Cena katalogowa: 555PLN
- badges
- embroidery
- rivet with an embossing on the star pockets
- zipper 18cm
Materiał:100% poliester
HISTORY why it all beagn?
A young man stands before a hotel and waits in the rain, in hishand he holds a camera. After a number of hours it becomesobvious why he has waited for so long. The most dominant racingcyclist of all times, Eddy Merckx, steps out of the hotel, he notonly allows himself to be photographed, but gives the camerafoting, dripping wet fan his cap.
From this young man developed the esteemed sport and fashionphotographer Kal Stuht von Neupauer. His name is not onlysynonymous with photography, but also with his business,Starshot, which has also gained notoriety through it's superbdesign department. The newest coup to leave the design studio isthe Starshot Cap", which is produced in the style of the originalEddy Merckx cap but with Starshot authenticity. One who expectsa "retro-copy", will be surprised, only the shape is taken over fromthe old cap, many innovative elements were added. From a designperspective each of these elements are impressive enough intheir own right, let alone combined in the final product. All patterns are glued or sewn on and work together with the materialsof the cap to produce a feeling of "old-fashioned" quality whenheld. Appropriately for a cycling hat, a dedicated Tour de France limited Edition cap, Le Tour", has been produced. This limitededition cap evokes the style and emotion which an event like thisdeserves.
A fawn stands in a forest clearing grazing peacefully. From adistance there is the sound of two mountain-bikers. The fawnlistens, its hairy ears locate the source of the noise: The buzzingof the free wheeling mechanism, suspension struts, the puffing ofbreath. The dear fawn listens carefully. Then it lowers its head andcontinues grazing. The bikes have now reached the clearing. Thedear sees the biker. It stands frozen. Then it goes blind.
Yet again these bikers wore the typical bike-jerseys that seem tohave been designed in the eighties. Or worse: in a pseudo-teamapparel look. For over twenty years now biker have terrorized animals in nature or its peripheral areas such as country highwayswith their vivid and tastless choice of jerseys. Not even membersof the own species are safe, of course: Even serious managers anddynamic family fathers riding on 3000-Euro-state-of-the-art-bikeswear apparel that one must seriously doubt their colour perception and aesthetic senses; Or couples that suffer from a commontastelessness in fluorescent jerseys and ride through the woodsrepresent a serious threat to nature and endanger forest animals.In short: whether road or mountain biking, bike-jerseys, very fewexceptions aside, are colour and design-catastrophes. This had tochange!
A scene like the one on the forest clearing was one day witnessedby two Starshot designers (why they had been there is not theissue here). A few days later in the Starshot kitchen the issue wasbrought up, discussed and a common objective was formulated. Man and animal must not suffer any more from unloving bike-apparel designl Bike riding should be agreeable for nature again,as it once was intended. On that day Starshot started to designbike-jerseys and soon teamed up with the knights from GROFA to fight the good cause, the aestheticication of bike apparel.
The Starshot Bike jersey collection represents the aestheticisat on of bike apparel. There are two lines, one functional jersey line and one retro-line which in fact is a re-interpretation of historic wool jerseys. Both lines, as expected from Starshot, show a lovefor details fashionable patterns and icons, embroideries and fillgree badges and fake printing. With the retro jerseys metal rivets and buttons made of mother of-pearl are some of those details. Pockets are placed where they had been on the original jerseysfrom the twenties and fifties in the kidney area- and on some pieces presented later - in the upper stomach area (in those dayscompetitive bike rides had to carry their tubes, tools and even provisions over long distances by themselves).Doing something positive to the environment has never been sostylish.