Eastpak Reveals its Full Artist Studio 2014 Bags from the likes of Tim Coppens, Christopher Shannon & More

Tim Coppens

 Fashion is often criticized when it tries to do something charitable, especially when the purpose of the project has little or no significance to the cause it supports. The Eastpak Artist Studio has been around for 4 years and each year it gives a couple of designers a chance to transform a blank Eastpak padded pak'r into a work of art to be auctioned for charity.  

The charity in receipt of the proceeds is DAA also known as designers against aids. It was formed in 2004 and its main objective to raise awareness about hiv/aids. 

This years roaster includes a star studded line up of Tim Coppens, Christopher Shannon, Jean Paul Gaultier, Manolo Blahnik, Walter Van Beirendonck, Sybilla, Scooter LaForge, MSGM, Lala Berlin, KRJST, Henrik Vibskov, Gaspard Yukievich, Elio Fiorucci, Christopher Lee Sauve, Chris Janssens & Antoine Peters.  

The auction opens on world aids day Dec 1st. 

Jean Paul Gaultier

Henrik Vibskov

Christopher Shannon

Walter Van Beirendonck

See the full collection on FY

3rd Eastpak Artist Studio Backpacks AVAILABLE NOW

Adam Tensta

• 365 days, in which
• 56 artists, from
• 14 countries, on
• 3 continents, have turned
• 1 limited edition Eastpak Padded Pak’r® into
• ∞ possibilities.

It was another staggering year for the third edition of Eastpak Artist Studio. For this project, we let young talent and renowned artists explode their wittiness and creative compulsions on our most classic and cult backpack: the Eastpak Padded Pak’r®.

Eastpak Artist Studio is a project that offers a platform for established and up-and-coming artists to express their creativity. However, Eastpak Artist Studio is not only about creative freedom, it lets artists show their involvement with the world. All proceeds of the sales will go to the charity organization Designers Against AIDS. We think that raising awareness about HIV/AIDS amongst youngsters is an absolute necessity, that’s why our engagement is so strong.Buy HERE

David David

Javier Mariscal

Pantheone

A.P.C. X EASTPAK LAUNCHES SEPTEMBER 16TH

 France and America are often portrayed as two nations that don’t naturally get on. However, for this new collaboration, representatives of each nation – A.P.C. from France and EASTPAK from the USA – have set their differences aside to create a collection of functional luggage for everyday use. The format for these EASTPAK collaborations is now well established, take the recent EASTPAK x Raf Simons partnership as an example: EASTPAK provide the shapes and the production knowhow, while the other participant takes care of the artistic vision.

“Good design is as little design as possible”, said Dieter Rams in his famous 10 principles for good design; this is a maxim that A.P.C. have clearly followed when creating this collection. Each EASTPAK shape is stripped back to the bare essentials, reducing each bag to its core functionality. Oki-ni

ORGASMIC!: EASTPAK X WOOD WOOD SPRING SUMMER 2013 COLLECTION

 As far as collaborations with Eastpak go, i'm loving this one with Danish Label WOOD WOOD good wood if you ask me lol for spring summer 2013. It's a complete set of bags to haul your stuff in which ever way you choose. The duffel bag is my fav from the pack.

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WANT/NEED/GOTTA HAVE: Eastpak x Kris Van Assche Backpack

I saw someone wearing one of them yesterday at one of the ongoing shows at the London Fashion Week and i was wondering if it was an old collection but alas...yay for Eastpak collaborating with one of my fav menswear designers Kris Van Assche. Its kinda out of my budget for its price tag or 202 quid...