Tagged: cycling
project one
aspen’86
The new silk carré aspen ’86 I designed for the italian brand superleggero is my personal tribute to the Coors Classic, a race held in North America between 1975 and 1988.
The race was considered the fourth biggest stage race on the world cycling calendar after the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta.
From a 3-day of racing in Colorado in the first years, the race grew to 2 weeks with stages across Nevada, Colorado, California, many of them criterium races or time trials like the time-trial hill climb up to San Francisco’s famous Telegraph Hill.
For a young Italian corridore viewing the evening television summary reports, it was wonderful. The level of the racers was not so high, the race was run in July or August when in Europe a racer had just finished exhausted from the Tour de France or was preparing for the Vuelta.
But what fascinated me were the designs, so different from what were normally worn by racers in Europe. Those were the years of teams like Toshiba, 7-Eleven, Descente, Z-Vetements. And what to say of the first Oakley goggles that made Andy Hamsten look like a Martian?
At the Coors Classic, the race leader wore a wonderful red jersey with white diagonal stripes – some years horizontal – with new graphics yearly, inspired by the two main sponsors.
What a splendid obsession!
To those graphics and to that fantastic 80s’ design I wanted to dedicate the two silk carrés aspen ’86 and aspen ’85.
You can find them here . . .
54 special
So happy to show you some details of 54 speciale the brand new handbag hors catégorie I designed for superleggero.
What racing number will you be wearing this summer?
You can find them here . . .
roads like these!
this tour!
no code
The wonderful Lola wearing no code the lightest, coolest and chicest cycling sock I ever designed.
Sorry, for superleggero only. Photo: Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis
rip
paris-nice 2018
From the Hell. My first PARIS-NICE live at the start. Photo: Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis