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Graffiti as Heritage: The Engineered Garments Workaday x Manabu Gaku Inada Capsule.
In October 2021 — preceding the military graffiti textiles of the Engineered Garments SS24 collection — EG Workaday launched an exclusive graffiti-print capsule at Nepenthes New York. The collaboration with Brooklyn-based artist Manabu Gaku Inada reinterprets graffiti — a cultural foundation rooted in over a century of street art — as a sophisticated expression of contemporary New York life.
Inada's work is a meticulous reconstruction of memory and theory. His visual language moves across a vast temporal landscape, drawing from sources spanning 1760 to 1973: childhood "Warbird" model decals, vintage victory markings, American industrial manuals, Bruno Munari's pictograms, and Johannes Itten's color theories — layered into a single, dense visual field.
Each utility jacket and fatigue pant is a singular artifact. The silk-screened prints are applied by hand, block by block — a process that demands extraordinary time and artisanal precision. Unlike anything mass-produced, these garments carry the weight of that labor. This is not merely apparel; it is a wearable archive of the shared conceptual vision between Daiki Suzuki and Manabu Gaku Inada.
Brand: Nepenthes New York, Engineered Garments Workaday
Artist: Manabu Gaku Inada
Year: 2021
Brand: Nepenthes New York, Engineered Garments Workaday
Artist: Manabu Gaku Inada
Year: 2021
ENGINEERED GARMENTS WORKADAY: Utility Jacket. Military Graffiti.
The raw, atmospheric texture of the original stencil spray paint has been meticulously captured and faithfully reproduced through precision silkscreen printing.
Gaku meticulously analyzed the artwork's impact on each sample garment, refining the exact placement of every element to ensure a perfect structural balance.
Silkscreen print details are carefully scaled and balanced to ensure fidelity to the original artwork.
