Kaporal
x LGN Louis-Gabriel Nouchi

Kaporal and LGN Louis-Gabriel Nouchi have reinvented the unisex wardrobe
as contemporary and involved, using upcycled denim

Photographer Ismaël Moumin Date December 15, 2021

Photographer Ismaël Moumin
Date December 15, 2021

Recycle,
recreate
and transform.
For our 4 th collaboration on the topic of Upcycling, we asked designer Louis-Gabriel Nouchi to create a 100% upcycled denim capsule wardrobe. Launching exclusively on Kaporal.com on December 20, 2021!

The denim was recovered from stores via our Kaporal Impact Recycling program for collecting old jeans, which we have operated since 2014. The material has also been recovered from fabric scraps and old rolls of unused denim found in our warehouses. The collection consists of seven unique pieces carefully designed around modern wardrobe archetypes; they are urban and elegant in keeping with traditional French jeanswear. Each piece was conceived and crafted by hand, requiring twenty hours of intricate work in the Marseille workshops of 13 A'TIPIK.

The line imagined in a patchwork of raw, light, and white denim has been structured around cuts tailored to fluid, oversized, graphic lines.

The clothes imagined by LGN Louis-Gabriel Nouchi do not follow any particular gender standard and can be worn by people of any identity.

Extra-wide, jogging-style pants with elastic waist
Patchwork pants with a contrasting band on the leg.
A fitted, two-button suit jacket
A zip-up patchwork jacket
A long, oversized coat
A white cotton denim work shirt
Oversized raw denim work overalls
ABOUT
FROM
LGN
Louis-Gabriel
Nouchi

LGN was founded in Paris in 2017 by Louis-Gabriel Nouchi to share his contemporary vision of a new elegance. With LGN, "the silhouette becomes a balancing point between classic tailoring and sportswear, grunge counter-culture and traditional craft, providing a new sense of freedom, a new relationship to what we wear."

Nouchi's contemporary vision of the cut and his strong view of silhouettes earned him a nomination at the 2014 Festival of Fashion in Hyères, where he won the Camper prize and the Palais de Tokyo prize.

He was also named laureate of the OpenMyMed festival organized by the Maison Mode Méditerranée (MMM) in 2019.