![]() ![]() I think that’s my way to keep looks timeless. I actually have a lot of jackets but they’re not crazy in terms of patterns, so they go with all of my shirts. “One of my favourite itemss is like a really, really old brown leather wool jacket which I got from a friend fifteen years ago – and he had already bought it second-hand in New York ten years before that. ![]() It gives me a little more satisfaction about myself… at least a little bit.” I kind of like the thought that it doesn’t have to be produced again, because it exists for ages. At some point I also started digging into second-hand stores and picking out things which are unique and you don’t see duplicated on the street. “When I buy new things, it’s mostly refurbished stuff. His personal transformation, he tells us, has also led him to change his shopping habits. It’s sustainable and made of recycled fabric, I like that.” Today I’m wearing black, but I don’t have a huge collection of black things. I try to mix second-hand with modern stuff. ![]() So, not necessarily consciously, but if you’re surrounded by people wearing different styles, it also gives you confidence to try new things. I listen to electronic music and at festivals people wear a lot of floral and print stuff. “I think a part of my style comes from music. I don’t know, is that a collection? When is a collection, a “collection”?” Alex asks, smiling. “I like floral prints and, sometimes, since my body type is not very huge, I can even buy women’s clothes. Totally different values and outlook on life.” “And I think if my younger self met me now, he might think I was a weirdo. “I don’t think I would have liked my younger self,” he grins. I think they pushed me and I’m enjoying that journey.” The people you surround yourself with, whether consciously or subconsciously, have a big influence on your personality. He’s spent many years thinking about growth and becoming more socially conscious. They had a big influence on my life.”Īlex is thoughtful and articulate. When I quit and started studying – first law, then design – it was the first time in my life that I had a special group of really good friends. But being a professional athlete doesn’t give you time to form a real stable group of friends. It was a brilliant time in my life and formed me as a person. When I was younger I was in professional sports. “I credit a lot of my development to the people around me. Confidence radiates over everything and makes a lot of things work.” I think that has a lot to do with confidence. Sometimes they turn out nice, sometimes not quite like I wanted them to be, but I try. I’m growing into what I like, and trying things I wouldn’t have in the past. “Maybe it sounds weird for a 40-year-old guy, but I think I’m still developing as a person. As I got older, and I guess a little more self-confident, I became brave enough to stand out,” he continues. “When I was younger, I bought more brand stuff and tried to fit in. “Either you try to fit in – you see something in a catalogue, on a person or a general trend, and try to fit in or feel a certain connectivity to a group – or you try to stand out. ![]() “I think there are two ways to approach fashion,” he says. We soon discover that his style is not coincidental, but tells a prolific story of his life. “It gave me confidence to have expensive stuff.” I was a different person back then,” Alex tells us, setting his bike aside on Kolosseumstraße, in Munich’s edgy Glockenbachviertel. I think I wore it once in my life, felt ridiculed, and then sold it at a flea market. Honestly, it’s embarrassing, but I bought a pink Prada jacket. Really ridiculous stuff that I never wore, just because I thought it was cool, because it had a brand on it. Because the brand dyes the finished clothes, rather than the materials, fewer chemicals and less water are needed.“When I was younger, I tried to fit in. Here, the clothes are also dyed using a modern dyeing process. Moreover, the production process of these materials has a high ecological impact.Īs mentioned, the collection is partly produced in the Czech Republic, where OSKA has two production workshops. These materials have the risk of releasing microplastics when washing the clothes. Finally, OSKA also uses the unsustainable conventional cotton in their clothes.Ī smaller part of the collection also uses synthetic materials such as polyester, polyamide and elastane. In addition OSKA also uses BCI cotton (Better Cotton Initiative) and recycled cotton. This means that no chemicals are used in the production process. Some of the cotton is GOTS-certified organic (Global Organic Textile Standard). The brand uses materials such as cotton, linen, modal, wool, hemp and tencel, among others.ĭifferent types of cotton are used in the OSKA collection. Most of OSKA’s clothing, about 80% of the collection, is made of natural materials. ![]()
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