For his first collection at the helm of G-Star RAW, designer Aitor Throup explored the ergonomics of denim in a dramatic presentation at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Throup, who has worked with Dutch fashion label G-Star RAW since 2013, was announced as the Dutch brand's creative director in October 2016.

For his Raw Research II presentation that took place yesterday during Paris Men's Fashion Week, the designer showed a series of "prototype" garments on statuesque mannequins.
Half of the mannequins were darkly-dressed in raw denim, while the other half were highlighted in bleached denim and white fabrics.

"On one side, you see dark raw denim in its pure state before it's washed," Throup said. "And then on the other side you see the exact same collection perfectly mirrored but in a completely washed-out almost white state." "They almost looked like stone sculptures because of how they were lit," he added.

The capsule collection includes the brand's "3D denim concept", which is intended to challenge the conventions of denim design.
The raw denim trousers, named Motac-X, feature stretch fabric panels in areas that the body needs to move, such as the knee and hip joints.

"We have great stretch denim, but it's something that's standardised," Throup told Dezeen. "How can we get a garment to move with the body, but made out of rigid denim""
"Then you start engineering panels that move in certain ...