This clothing brand designed for “City Cycling” wants to keep going underground!

It may be hard to imagine the connection between the word “Underground Club” and “outdoor”, but this issue of mounsteruniv What I want to introduce to you is a Japanese functional clothing brand – CCP, which is rooted in the club culture.

It will tell you that there is no contradiction between “being close to nature” and “futurism”.

Not to mention running to the mountains and going out of the house is actually the concept of “outdoor” of modern urbanites.

Inspired by the most common life scene – “urban cycling”, CCP provides a complete set of functional clothing system, which provides interesting and practical dressing choices for urban people, Even the famous Gary Fisher (the father of mountain bikes) also praised it! CCP’s full name is crazycharacterprint, and its founder, Tsutomu KIJIMA, is an internal member of the former hystericglamour brand.

He has accumulated rich brand experience and founded CCP in 1996.

However, CCP didn’t appear as a functional dress in the beginning.

Tsutomu KIJIMA first made clothes to facilitate wearing in the club.

At that time, the team Every member of the club is actively engaged in rave culture in Tokyo.

It has become a norm to go to the club every week.

A group of people dance with trance and techno all night.

But with the passage of time, Tsutomu KIJIMA also gradually found that people working in clubs and music industry around him were getting worse and worse, which also made him pay attention to his health and lifestyle.

KIJIMA commuted by bike before the rise of Japanese cycling culture.

At that time, only professional racing clothes could not meet his “leisure riding” needs.

In this way, with the original intention of solving practical problems, he became a pioneer in the field of leisure cycling clothing.

Until now, the size of the CCP team is still very small, Only by KIJIMA (CEO), Sato (designer), Megumi (store management) and three other external personnel.

Far from the trendy landmark daiguan mountain and Harajuku, CCP is located in Motian District, the easternmost part of Tokyo.

In the minimalist retail space and studio decorated with concrete, they can hardly see any fashion elements that cater to the current fashion trend.

They ignore the noise of the fashion world and combine craftsmanship with creativity in their works one by one Create your own vision.

All products of CCP are completed in the factory close to the studio, so the three members of the team can often go to the factory by bike to supervise the production.

The “small and flexible” nature of the team makes CCP launch new designs faster than other brands – a dress takes only 45 days from planning to completion.

In addition, they only do seasonal production, and even the release cycle of clothing is contrary to the standard fashion norms.

In the current red sea of technology and functional clothing brands, such a unique and “underground” outdoor brand has taken an unconventional path.

And just as I was going to introduce it to you, I just found that the “brand up” column of the November issue of goout spent nearly 6 pages reporting CCP! Although it has shifted from raveoutfit to functional clothing, the brand core of CCP has not changed.

The design also adopts organic streamline, eliminating too many sharp and avant-garde tailoring.

When considering the design, KIJIMA emphasized a very unique point: “in addition to integrating the clothing into the city, we also hope to strive to create a silhouette that can leave a lasting impression on passers-by.”.

Based on the functional requirements of cycling, CCP clothing uses a lot of “back pocket” and “front collar”, including special settings for details such as zippers, buttons, fabrics and reflective tapes.

Recently, the focus on “sustainability” has also led CCP to focus on “bridging the gap between functional clothing and sustainable fabrics”, such as the application of petroleum based biodegradable materials and environmentally friendly materials in clothing.

It’s better to deconstruct the design concept of CCP through several classic products of their family.

As one of the classic products of CCP, filtertop was actually launched before the epidemic.

It was originally designed to protect wearers from dust pollution during urban commuting.

Like filtertop, this Hoodie’s “front neck” design is particularly friendly for cycling and outdoor activities in autumn and winter.

Warmcatch is used on the fabric ®， It is not only light, but also has good thermal insulation performance.

The application of lumiace quick drying fabric makes it have excellent sweat absorption, and it can maintain comfort even after vigorous outdoor activities.

Two handbags with invisible zippers and thumbholes at cuffs also add convenience to riding.

This double zipper windbreaker is the result of CCP’s improvement of the windbreaker version released this spring.

It has repeatedly adjusted the width and length to create a coat that perfectly matches CCP’s full face Hoodie.

TorayH2OFF ® Microfiber fabric has a high-density woven structure, which is durable and waterproof.

At the same time, the water vapor generated by movement can still be discharged from the inside.

Dougipants, as a classic single product of CCP, is often out of stock.

Inspired by Kendo pants, the pants are tapered and loose, with front and rear pockets.

Cordura is adopted as a whole ® Made of tear resistant fabric, the waist can be adjusted freely.

Like dougi, this function pants is also very popular.

It has existed in CCP’s clothing archives for more than 20 years.

CCP updates the version and details of functional pants every year.

The 2021 functional pants are equipped with six zippers at the front, side and lower leg, all of which are opened with interlayer to increase the range of activities.

The whole is made of matte Taslan mixed taffeta fabric.

This piece that looks like a vest is actually a wearable backpack, like the name “beyond”.

Its original design intention is to surpass and break through the original clothing concept.

The pockets on the back of the vest and the right armpit are connected with each other, and the items put from the back can be easily taken out from the right side.

Two kinds of mesh materials are used in the material, which can reduce the weight and release the heat generated by movement at the same time.

Throughout the circle of CCP’s classic products, you will find that they are very consistent with the current sense of function and the output of trend symbols, but when creating these products, they did not take into account the “trend”.

CCP’s products are not marketed and never have discounts.

As the founder Tsutomu KIJIMA said, “we only produce what we need, never more or less.

If sales are good, we will be happy, but we will never sell for sales.” CCP rarely cooperates jointly, but if you also pay attention to the Tokyo clothing store soft, you may be surprised to find that their store will sell some exclusive CCP products you can’t find elsewhere.

20 years ago, for the reason of wholesale cooperation, CCP and softs launched the joint project “ghost”, which is also based on the consistent understanding and feeling of both sides on garment making.

Softs will make some design changes in the details of CCP products, but the feeling is still very “CCP”..