British streetwear brand Aries – known for its graphic 1980s- and 1990s-infused styles and Ancient Greek motifs – is the latest in a long line of collaborators to team up with heritage Manchester outerwear brand Baracuta, creator of the 1930s-born G9 Harrington jacket, a perennial stalwart of British style. Past collaborators include Junya Watanabe, Palace and Our Legacy, who each put their own imprint on the style – from Palace’s luminous Gore-Tex to patchwork tartan from Watanabe.
Led by Italian designer Sofia Prantera, a longtime luminary of the streetwear scene, Aries was founded in 2012 and is based in London, where it opened the first Aries store last year. ‘I think what I picked up from skateboarding is this DIY attitude to things – you don’t need everything to make something work, you just need an energy,’ she told Wallpaper* at the time. ‘When people say the death of streetwear, it’s just the death of a kind of streetwear – the type replicated by mass production. But it’s not the death of the spirit of streetwear.’
