Description

The Lot. 802 Black Veg-Tan Horsehide Cossack Leather Jacket from Taiga Takahashi T.T is inspired by motorcycle and automobile jackets from the 1930s, popular as casual wear in New York. This Cossack Leather Jacket is crafted from exclusively developed vegetable-tanned horsehide supplied by a small Japanese tannery, featuring a natural core and pigment dye on the top grain to allow it to patina and develop character with wear. Guided by the Applied Archaeology ethos and Taiga Takahashi’s archives, this piece resurrects a relic of the past to serve as a future artifact, blending aesthetic principles rooted in Japanese concepts of craftsmanship and beauty. Paying homage to the antique original, the Cossack Jacket combines fits and elements from flight and riding jackets with a tailored directional fit with set-in sleeves, a single-piece back, gusseted side cinch buckle tabs, a point collar, and an uncoated iron zipper front closure, along with slant welt lower hand pockets, a welted interior chest pocket, and adjustable Bakelite button cuffs. Innovating designs from the past using old-world techniques executed with exquisite precision, the Lot. 802 Jacket is made with a Japanese wool-linen twill flannel body lining and rayon/cotton-lined sleeves, constructed with rolled and felled seams, and reinforced with bartacks throughout. Step into the future with a timeless vision of the past through Taiga Takahashi.