Grounds SS26 Seen By Colin Savercool

Photography Colin Savercool
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Can you show us some pictures of what first inspired this brand?

When the brand first started, how long did research & development take? What was the most difficult hurdle to overcome?

When we first tried to create the sole, the design was so unconventional and since we had no prior technical knowledge, it was incredibly difficult to find a factory willing and able to produce it.

What Japanese subcultures has influenced the foundation of the brand?

The way of exaggerating.

Take a photo of the weirdest thing you stepped on in those shoes.

Do you think of the sole as sculpture, architecture, or prosthetic?

Architecture

Which non-footwear reference (art, film, object) secretly shaped this season’s design?

Juon japanese horror movie

Screenshot the last film still you saved that feels a “grounds mood” 

Movie: It follows

Is there a material you’re dying to use that feels impossible right now?

Fine jewelry

Take a picture of something in your studio right now that sums up the collab with Meryll Rogge.

How did this collaboration come about?

We were in the same school. and we had a mutual acquaintance.

Both brands have strong identities — what was the most surprising overlap when you started working together?

Both brands are busy and hectic ;)

Please tell us a song that sums up this collection.

You have said before that you do love sci-fi, what’s the craziest theory you believe in?

Mikio Sakabe: Thinking seriously about reincarnation, I’ve come to feel that if the afterlife is free from the constraints of time, then upon rebirth the same soul could exist across past and present eras simultaneously. Seen this way, perhaps all living beings on Earth are expressions of a single soul’s cycle of reincarnation. I thought that if people saw the world this way, it could become a more peaceful place.