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Always in to search for some casual clothing, mostly English and Italian sportswear like Burberry, Henry Lloyd, Barbour, Stone Island, Paul & Shark, CP Company and a couple more brands. I also like the art of tattoos and piercings. Not the common anchor, I Heart Mom, tribal, tears and most of that crap, but the Maori, Polynesian, Aztek, Balinese and Mayan ones. The mythological and spiritual things about those indigenous tribes intrigue me.

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CP Mille Miglia

Massimo Osti's iconic design was first released as a gift, as part of C.P. Company's sponsorship involvement in the '988 edition of the iconic Mille Miglia (One Thousand Miles) Italian open road endurance race, this is why it is often called 'Mille Miglia' jacket. Its design features embodied the notions of functionality and innovation. The Mille Miglia race, since the first edition in 1927, traditionally consisted of some of the most beautiful and fastest road cars, most of which were typically roadsters. Osti ingeniously considered this when building hinging goggles into the hood of his jacket. With the use of another plastic insert, he created a window on the left sleeve through which a driver could check his watch whilst driving.

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Class is learnt

Audemars

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For the 20 year anniversary of the Mille Miglia Jacket, C.P. Company have designed a Special Edition of their most iconic piece. To display the jackets, as well as the companies evolution over the past two decades.  The exhibition, which has been curated by Aitor Throup, features the new design as well as 20 previous Mille Miglia jackets selected from the C.P. Company archive. The subjects chosen chronicle quite the transformation in materials, construction, and appearance in the garments displayed.

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CP Company

C.P. Company began manufacturing Italian casual wear in 1975 with the idea of bringing traditional clothing elements back into a man’s wardrobe. Since then they have gone onto produce over 40,000 garments, each piece reflecting C.P. Company’s philosophy.

The design and creation of C.P. Company clothing originates from their interest and research into military uniforms and work suits and more recently emphasis has fallen on the evolution of urban city wear. The main attraction of this type of clothing is the way in which function and wearability is combined with elegance and comfort.

One of C.P. Company’s main aims has been to produce garments, which are exclusively individual, using new fabrics and finishes. This is achieved from continual experimentation with different weaves, fabrics and colours. The company uses advanced creative technology, new found raw materials are dyed, printed on, coated, washed and treated, all in ways to find the ultimate C.P. Company product.

C.P. Company unites technology and knows how with human resources with the aim of maintaining coats and outerwear, knitwear, shirts and trousers all with one unique look.

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Padded jacket, in camouflage print cotton: When exposed to cold, the camouflage print will fade away and the garment will tend to get dark grey.

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All warfare is based on deception.

Sun Tzu

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Stone Island; Camo Design

Czech z.60 Jehlici Camouflage Jehlici, which translates to “needles” in English, has three main variations of this pattern: Dark on Light, Light on Dark, and Invisible. Dark on Light has blobs of a darker green over a lighter grayish green base color. Light on Dark is just the opposite. These appear to have been early production uniforms with later ones being Invisible style where the pattern can only be seen from the underside of the cloth. The Jehlici camo was the inspiration for the Bulagarian frogskin pattern. This camo has been used on both Stone Island and C.P. Company jackets.

German Sumpfmuster Camouflage Based on the 1944 Wehmmacht marsh pattern, Sumpfmuster was also known as Tan&Water, Sumpftarn, and Swamp camouflage. The first versions of Sumpfmuster were developed in the early 1950’s and continued see usage till the early 1970’s. In Aw’07 Stone Island released a hooded field jacket and a parka in this camo.

United States ERDL Camouflage. Developed in the 1960’s, ERDL camouflage continued to see use till the mid 1980’s as a slightly redesigned version called Woodland camouflage. Not only was Massimo Osti inspired by the ERDL print, but also incorporated the rip stop fabric into his camouflage Ice Jackets. The rip stop was to minimize the tearing of fabric if it was snagged.

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Stone Island; Vintage Military

The early smock was manufactured from Ventile, another inspiration Stone Island took from the British Forces, and featured a two-way zip with Velcro storm flap. Wrist fastenings were also of the Velcro type, and the smock featured a wired hood and four bellows pockets with large buttons, for ease of fastening whilst wearing gloves.

When this piece was new, the ice camo must have been amazing. But as this piece changed owners though the years, sadly by the time it reached me, the colour change on this one is minimal at best.

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It’s not just the German and US military Stone Island gets its inspiration from. For the past few seasons there has been either a C.P. Company or Stone Island jacket inspired directly by the British Army Smock, Windproof, Arctic.

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stone island

Stone Island is an Italian Designer brand from Sportswear Company (SPW) based in Bologna. The label was set up by Italian designer Massimo Osti in 1982 as a secondary line or diffusion collection of his main C.P Company label. The brand was remarkable for specialising in surface treatment offabricsanddyeingtechniques.

A feature of a Stone Island garment is the compass patch that buttons onto the upper sleeve of the left arm. Originally the patches were green edged, badges from around the year 2000 onwards became black edged. Also, there are the rarer 'white badges' which were originally made on certain jackets for the millennium. The white badge is now apparent on jackets that use materials that Stone Island themselves in-house. The jackets are normally very unique, such as the "Liquid Reflective" jacket, that uses thousands of small shards of glass that reflect to light.

The make has been popular amongstfootballfan 'casuals' in theUnited Kingdom, theRepublic of Irelandand theNetherlands. The brand can also be seen in manyfootball hooliganismbased films, such asGreen Street HooligansandThe Football Factory.

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The Mille Miglia was an open-road endurance race which took place in Italy 24 times from 1927 to 1957.

Mille Miglia is also the name of a jacket, named after the race, inspired by the 1920s racewear and designed by Massimo Osti for his CP Company clothing label. The garment features goggles built into the hood and originally had a small circular window in the sleeve enabling the wearer to see their watch. The jackets have been produced for a long period and are still popular with football casuals.

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In an avalanche, no single snowflake ever feels responsible.

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

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Letting go, even if it hurts, doesn't mean you have to let go of everything. You just have to let go of the person and your feelings for her but the memories will always be there whether it's good or bad. Because everytime you remember those memories, it will always put a smile into your heart. And be glad that once in your life this person made you happy and put colors into your life even if it's just for a while.

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I abso-fucking-lutly love Stone Island