Tokyo street style meets imperial Asian armor
Mexican tailoring meets Anglo-Saxon gold
Los Angeles denim meets ancient Mediterranean and African textiles
The runway of tomorrow and the ethics of heritage
mankai Modern designers look to ancient organic textiles to create biodegradable streetwear.
Lewis Chessmen material: The famous 12th-century Lewis Chessmen, found in Scotland and displayed in the British Museum, are carved mostly from walrus ivory.
mankai Designers use their platforms to highlight the controversial origins of museum-held artifacts.
Practices, objects, and traditions inherited from the past and maintained in the present. Streetwear designers adapt ancient Anglo-Saxon and Asian artifacts from the British Museum into modern runway garments.
Which sustainable, ancient fiber is being revived by modern designers to make biodegradable cargo pants?
mankai Match ancient relics with runway designs to discover how history inspires modern K-pop fashion.
mankai Digital designers recreate historical museum artifacts as virtual video game accessories.
What famous ancient Greek temple sculptures are at the center of a major repatriation debate?
From which century do the Benin Bronzes, often featured in digital fashion scans, originate?
What legal status allows anyone to use designs that are thousands of years old without paying royalties?
What technology allows designers to create exact virtual replicas of museum artifacts for video games?