![]() ![]() All of our pieces are cut and sewn in studio. FALTO resonates with the streetwear culture and community, while also featuring expressive designs that push the boundaries of both streetwear and high fashion. ![]() The purpose is to express style and creativity through unique, handmade garments. FALTO strives to unite everyone from all walks of life through the creative lens of fashion. Jacket Hand sewn // Screen printed // 18” x 20” Printed FALTO graphic // Shot by post shared by FALTO on at 4:23pm PSTįALTO stands for For All Living Things Oppressed. I spoke with both Kondrat and Yenter about their brands and their creative goals in the Chicago streetwear scene. Kondrat and Yenter have the talent and capabilities to make a big impact on the fashion community worldwide, but it starts with support from people within their communities. That is exactly what both FALTO Clothing and Ambrose Chicago are doing. They started with an idea and transformed that idea into wearable art. It is important to realize the impact local designers can have on fashion as a whole, because all famous brands started local. It was something that reminded me of Off-White and Aimé Leon Dore, but again, something that was different enough to stand on its own. It was minimal, but its simplicity and execution made it look high fashion. I saw Yenter wearing this super simple gray sweatshirt with an image of the Michaelangleo’s David on it. Ambrose is a brand very personal to Yenter (it’s literally his middle name) but it’s also personal to its consumers. FALTO Clothing is a brand that really showed me the sheer amount of talent Chicago has, and the capabilities of designers in the city to make a name for themselves.Īnother local designer I’ve been fortunate enough to meet is Henry Yenter, one of the creatives behind Ambrose Chicago. The pants were like something straight off the runway, a sort of Alexander McQueen meets Vetements with their own twist. What drew me to Kondrat’s style was a pair of pink and frilly pants where the frills are layered, creating a tier cake effect. One current local designer is 20-year-old Luke Kondrat of FALTO clothing. They both came from Chicago with nothing but a vision and were able to manifest their own unique brands without giving up who they are. ![]() Once, these people were Virgil Abloh and Kanye West who are now icons in the fashion world - Abloh is creative director of Louis Vuitton Menswear and Off-White and West is the creator of Yeezy. communities drive Chicago fashion and make trends instead of following the ones set in place by fast fashion. This involves artists and designers putting on their own shows and exhibits to display and spread their art. On set today w/ ☁️☁️ // □ post shared by Tristan Thompson on at 5:47pm PDTĬhicago’s fashion community is largely D.I.Y., essentially meaning it is a lot of small, independent artists working together and putting their work out into the world on their own. Once I started educating myself on the processes behind what it takes to make clothes - such as the inspiration, the stories, collaboration, and marketing - I was able to engage with even more people, particularly local designers and creatives part of the Chicago streetwear scene. Learning more about designers and appreciating the work that goes behind the final product of a design is what I think marked my transition from a materialistic fashion enthusiast to someone knowledgeable within the community. I am now someone who recognizes and appreciates brands for what they mean and what they artistically represent. But in admitting my fault in wearing clothes because they were hype or name brand, I have grown as a fashion expert. Buying a $300 windbreaker just because it said Supreme on it made me believe that people would think that I knew about fashion and was part of the community.įor a while, I thrived off that and instead of working to learn more about the brands I was wearing, I just continued to build my wardrobe on hype and not intrinsic value. Nothing mattered except for the logo and how it made other people perceive me. There was a time in my life more recent than I’d probably like to admit when I was sucked into a black hole of wearing brands for the sake of the name.
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