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Sacai, Moncler and the Future Tense

Sacai designer Chitose Abe sees her small but perfect collaboration with Moncler as an intellectual exercise that reflects on the distant future of Remo Ruffini’s skiwear behemoth, writes Tim Blanks.
Sacai designer Chitose Abe has teamed up with Moncler for a collection that looks into the distant future of Remo Ruffini’s outerwear brand.
Sacai designer Chitose Abe has teamed up with Moncler for a collection that looks into the distant future of the skiwear brand. (Getty Images)

As forward-looking as fashion claims to be, it’s rarely thinking more than a season or two ahead. I’ve certainly never heard any designer talk about seven decades hence. But Chitose Abe isn’t any designer. Like her mentor

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Tim Blanks
Tim Blanks

Tim Blanks is Editor-at-Large at The Business of Fashion. He is based in London and covers designers, fashion weeks and fashion’s creative class.

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