C.P Company’s Techy Jackets Take on New, Experimental Forms
As with most technical, outdoor-oriented clothing brands, outerwear is C.P. Company’s specialty.
Always featuring innovative fabrics and (most of the time) finished with its signature lens branding, C.P. Company’s product line-up has weatherproof jackets aplenty. However, it doesn’t have any quite like those recently made by Robyn Lynch.
The Irish-born, London-based designer has deconstructed C.P. Company’s function-focused outerwear to produce a range of upcycled and gloriously unconventional jackets.
Each piece is old stock from the Italian brand's past collections, re-imagined in Lynch’s London studio.
First seen during Robyn Lynch’s FW24 show at London Fashion Week, the outerwear in question includes nylon shell jackets with pieces of knitwear attached to them, a hugely oversized jacket shaped like a cape, and a tight-fitting sports jacket with its paneled construction twisted and manipulated into new places.
The final stamp of Robyn Lynch's approval is her logo, added to C.P. Company’s classic goggle detailing in some instances.
After debuting the jackets on the runway, and running an upcycling workshop with C.P. Company as part of Milan Design Week, the collection is now ready to release exclusively on the Robyn Lynch website on May 24.
Sustainability has always been something Lynch has focused on in her designs, visible in her previous upcycled collections with the cycling brand Rapha and the outerwear company Columbia.
Also visible in all her collaborations, including this one with C.P. Company, is the amount of care and attention put into every detail. As the designer told us during a previous interview, she won't create "a collaboration for collaboration’s sake.”
