The beginning of this season came from two things. First, the uniform of Paris firefighters (Sapeurs-Pompiers) that director Bonbom Jo was particularly attracted to while he was staying in Paris for work. As a foreigner, he was attracted to the uniforms of various professions, for example, the uniforms of government offices, transport companies, repairmen, police, and especially the firefighters. The red horizontal stripes on the chest and the cargo-detailed pants looked chic. Second, the Carhartt archive that he has collected since he was in University. For him, who works with pattern cutting and sewing, the versatility of Carhartt products was very useful. As Y2K and utility wear passes through the trend, BONBOM felt that this is a time to show new aesthetic using these items drawing on the cargo details and tech-wear sportiness of the firefighter uniforms he discovered, and the chicness of the utility found in the Carhartt archive.
For the FALL WINTER 2025 season, based on the fact that Carhartt‘ s aprons, overalls, work shirts, work pants, and work jackets were made for carpenter. He took deep inspiration from and researched the way carpenters dress themselves for need. he draws inspiration from the work wear traditionally worn by carpenters. He reinterprets iconic items such as work jackets (Detroit jackets), work jeans, aprons, overalls (dungarees), and wrap skirts with pockets designed to hold tools like tape measures, wooden rulers, and drills. The collection includes cargo pants, bomber jackets, utility vests, tapered ankle details designed to avoid snagging, slim-fit thermal underwear (home-wear), caps, distressed washing on hemline of jeans, sweat-stained effects, backpacks, belt loops, hanging loops, and more. The rustic, vintage aesthetic characteristic of work wear has been combined with BONBOM’s chic and robust signature silhouettes to present a new design perspective.
In addition to work wear, taking notes that carpenters often carry backpacks and wears comfortable sneakers, he applied the materials and details used in backpacks and sneakers to items throughout the collection. For a long time, he has been focusing on the similarity (connection) between the buckle-wrapped backpack and the fetishistic feeling of a harness tightening the body, and he also wanted to express the fact that the tone on tone fabric matching and foot wrapping by strap through eyelets seen in sneakers feel similar to the historic corsets and underwear (slip dress) in the aspect of aesthetics, structure, and mechanism seen in them. He wanted to indirectly reveal the fetish elements found in tech- wear and athletic-wear through a subtle connection. He decided to stay mostly in black and use the backpacking fabric as a main garment fabric to give the strict feeling and unacquainted mix and match in order to deliver a fresh, innovative vision with a contemporary twist.
