OFF-WHITE™ + ARTIST KATSU = OFFKAT

By teaming up with NYC-based graffiti artist KATSU, Off-White's Virgil Abloh continues to show his penchant for ground-breaking new projects. The result is OffKat, a collection for men and women that taps into the artist's ground-breaking specialty – drone painting and drone graffiti – and his ability to conceptually integrate ideas of vandalism with commercial stints and technology in general. Fashion wise, the final result reinterprets KATSU''s aesthetic signatures across clothing and accessories, as manifested through electronic voyeurism. “I’ve been a KATSU fan for a long time,” says Abloh. “And, more recently, I’ve seen just how ahead of the curve he is when it comes to fusing a kind of subversive tradition with a radical future. He crosses lines, and dissolves them. That thinking is a perfect adjunct to my ethos at Off-White.” OffKat features a high-low mix ranging from suiting to crew neck T-shirts with Katsu's instantly recognizable “skull moniker” and recontextualized drone paintings prominently played up across the clothes to an all-over, high-impact graphic effect. The lineup includes gender-neutral elements; such as printed-and-flared chinos, painted shorts, graffiti Jitney bags and boxy blazers. Framing the collection is a new OffKat video game.