{"id":25818,"date":"2013-12-09T17:42:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=25818"},"modified":"2014-01-03T18:48:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T18:48:48","slug":"cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2013\/12\/09\/cat\/","title":{"rendered":"CAT:  FASHION YOUR FUTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trust CAT with your New World Order footwear jam.<\/p>\n<p><b><span ><!--more--><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>CAT is one of those rare footwear brands to not only pick out and platform an uncanny array of graduate designers (the likes of Elise Ngobi and Mayada Khammu were both nascent discoveries), but offer them industry experience, creative breathing space and, woah, actual real world cashmoney.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/REBECCA_NAEN-20-of-107-e1386610642358.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"REBECCA_NAEN (20 of 107)\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/REBECCA_NAEN-20-of-107-e1386610642358.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Fashion Your Future, its new project for A\/W14, they teamed up with a number of London\u2019s industrialists to head-scratch their way through the city\u2019s young designing talent. Among the panellists, which includes Drapers\u2019 Graeme Moran and the brand\u2019s own Adam Green, are <i>Wonderland<\/i> favourites, British Fashion Council\u2019s Martine Rose and designer Alex Mattssen. Submitters <a href=\" \/2013\/12\/cat-footwear-fashion-your-future\/\">(more info here)<\/a> are asked to send in illustrations of how they would re-imagine CAT\u2019s Colorado boot silhouette. The winners will not only have their work shown on a London Collections: Men runway in February, but will be offered the chance to work alongside the house\u2019s creative staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Wonderland <\/i>caught up with Martine Rose and Alex Mattsson to chat through the collaboration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-24-at-12.04.01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25821\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-07-24 at 12.04.01\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-24-at-12.04.01-e1386610662380.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <b>WONDERLAND: You both have a long-standing creative partnership with the 1991-spawned brand. Why do you both enjoy working with CAT? Do they offer as much creative breathing space as they seem to?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i>Martine Rose:My collaboration with CAT has been ongoing since 1998, when they supported my very first catwalk show as part of MAN. We subsequently worked together for another four seasons, with three full collaborations that were stocked in Colette in Paris and ASOS. When they approached me to be part of this project, I was really excited! \u00a0I have never worked with Alex before, but I\u2018m looking forward to it. The space they gave me is so rare in this industry. They completely supported my process and ideas, and facilitated them as much as they possible. \u00a0I was really spoilt, it was an incredible luxury.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Mattson: Martine Rose and James Long who have done it in the past. I was kind of the next in line. I needed shoes for a few A\/W13 shows I was doing and they do work-wear type shoes, so that\u2019s how I got in touch with them in the first place. In terms of creative freedom, I just drew the designs, around five in total, and they picked the ones they liked, and we put it all into the final design \u2013 it\u2019s dream situation for a designer. At the end of the day, we are trying to make a product that\u2019s going to work in a shop and sell and still be wearable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/M-Rose-x-CAT-e1386610693729.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"M Rose x CAT\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/M-Rose-x-CAT-e1386610693729.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Alex, you were asked to design a shoe for the project. The last time I spoke you, you were working some Mexican gangster-meets-Sergio Leone vibes into a collab with Zebra Katz. What were your key inspirations this time round? <\/b><\/p>\n<p>AM<b>:<\/b> Good question. In the cuts and shapes I want to use tech fabrics; I want to do futuristic twists on work-wear. I\u2019m inspired by the idea of inner-space in the human mind &#8211; the universe that\u2019s inside your head that you only access when you\u2019re meditating, or even in dreams. I started looking into all this stuff. I found an artist call Alex Grey who I\u2019ve referred to in the past. He does Divine art, it\u2019s not necessarily religious \u2013 it\u2019s inner space. So as far as prints go they\u2019re kind of psychedelic and dreamy. It\u2019s mixed with a tech-work-wear foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Martine-Mens-project-AW12-e1386610604674.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Martine Men's project AW12\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Martine-Mens-project-AW12-e1386610604674.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What are you looking for in submissions? Energy? Flare? Originality?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>MR<b>:<\/b> A point of view mainly, but of course flare and energy help. \u00a0As nothing is really completely original, I would be looking for an interesting interpretation of an idea that perhaps already exists. \u00a0I want to believe it, basically. A sense of joy, too, is essential.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Did you guys enjoy working together?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>AM: We haven\u2019t worked together directly yet, but CAT has an amazing track record. I remember when Martine was working with them, it was great to see the kind of space she was given. It\u2019s limitless &#8211; you can kind of do whatever you want. They are a massive company, they have all sorts of materials you need, anything you ask for, they have it. 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