Dyne (Q2977)
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Dyne is a fashion house from FMD.
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Dyne |
Dyne is a fashion house from FMD. |
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Designer Christopher Bevans left the runway this season to return to New York’s FIT, where he was a fashion student some 20 years ago. “I found my first internship on the career board upstairs, it’s really where it all began,” he recalled fondly at today’s presentation, an installation in the Pomerantz Center gallery that will stay open through the week to give fans a better feel for Bevans’s technical fabrics.Bevans has long since left Manhattan for Portland, Oregon, and his label Dyne blends the classic tailored suits of the former with the outdoorsy sports-gear of the latter. Fittingly, he was preoccupied with an issue gripping both coasts: the catastrophic toll that waste and overproduction has taken on our environment. At the center of the room, Bevans placed a pile of detritus. Think: glinting stacks of CD-roms, the original Apple Macintosh, crushed VCRs, and other relics of technology past. On the screen directly behind it, he juxtaposed a short film of horses galloping through the Oregonian woods, carrying Dyne-clad riders.To sync with this environmentally friendly message, Bevans showed a slim range of 12 looks. As he sources fabrics from what’s available at mills (“which makes the color story a challenge,” he says), Bevans honed in on silhouettes like a cropped wool herringbone pant with a paracord drawstring and neat design touches like a logo zip pouch on the back of a hoodie, attached and detached by four snaps. His less-is-more tack was well considered, but the execution lacked impact somehow. One wanted a clearer insight into Dyne’s sustainable methods. Consider the black hooded sweatshirt, studded with the phrase “Save Us” in six languages. The conceit was clear, but you left wondering, “how?”
6 February 2019
For Spring, Dyne’s Christopher Bevans considered a “future nomad” as his person of inspiration. He mentioned “face masks that look like oxygen masks,” and an “apocalyptic feel.” But Dyne doesn’t do anything messily or raggedly—the company has become known for its slickly original performancewear, all or most of which has a streetwise knack. And, on top of that, there’s something refreshing about Bevans’s home and company base of Portland, Oregon—the man isn’t afraid of the color and quirkiness that can sometimes be harder to find with New York HQ’ed brands.Lightweight synthetic outerwear stood in everything from neutrals to rainbow-confetti schemes. Socks were mismatched; prints intermingled with techno-flora blooms and matrix-like grids. Case in point: In dystopia, the athlete is no less polished, even if he’s a bit more eccentric.Bevans also thinks a lot about the electronic element of what he does and how advancements in wearable technology might be implemented. Here he had something called “NFC,” which stands for “near field communications.” Android phones have it ready to go; iPhones need an app called Decode. Simply touching your phone to the Dyne logo on any of the garments today yielded a purchase option, with a four week turnaround for delivery. “Friends, influencers, press—if they’re wearing it before Spring deliveries, I’ll take it.” Smartly said and done.
9 July 2018
Dyne’s Christopher Bevans took a “more street” approach for his new collection, but, the designer mentioned, the company “always begins with the fabrics and the technicality.” Such is the lure of this Portland, Oregon, shop: It is an activewear company first, but with big style points behind it. And, indeed, while Fall’s look was more casual than last season’s, Dyne’s clothes are seldom not performance ready.The new lineup was a reaction to “a world that is a bit crazy, with political rhetoric that’s not the most positive,” said Bevans backstage preshow. There were nods to the ’60s and youth culture, namely with black berets, and all but direct reference to the Black Panthers, with pin attachments that read “A Unit of Force.” But in an inferred way, that spirit of rebellion could also be witnessed in certain shapes and techniques: a shimmering ruby flak vest that opened the show, for example, or 3-D-knitted sweatsuits that abstractly boasted peace signs in their threading.Bevans also mentioned partnering with an animal cruelty–free Italian factory on outerwear, which resulted in faux fur peacoats and bomber jackets. The factory is called Save the Duck—so even puffers had synthetic down—and a canard-emblazoned logo was created in the process. All this being said: Dyne, at this point, really can stand in as a go-to source for those wanting athleticwear outside and away from the big corporations providing it. Bevans’s work is made to move, but also, it’s mostly aesthetically unique in a field of ubiquity.
6 February 2018
Dyne—derived from the Greek worddynamis,meaning “power” and “force”—is the brainchild of Christopher Bevans, a Portland, Oregon–based designer who earned his stripes prior with stints at Billionaire Boys Club, Rocawear, and Nike (he has also worked with Kanye West). The Nike tenure must have lit an athletic fire in Bevans’s creativity; Dyne is a sportswear brand with actual sport participation in mind. But it is not meant to be labeled under any one particular pastime: “I believe that an active everyday lifestyle is, in itself, a sport. We are not a running company. We are not a tennis company. We’re an active company,” said Bevans.His Spring collection—and a majority of what he has done earlier—thus benefits from an aesthetic composition that, while falling more on the “ath” side of athleisure, still holds all-purpose interestingness whether you’re on the court or at home watching it.Bevans spliced performance-ready textiles—sourced from a special Swiss mill—into arcing-shoulder and elongated windbreakers, color-blocked running shorts (he has a great eye for color pairings), swirl-perforated tees, and even a mock mac coat with synthetic khakis. He mentioned that he’s a tennis player, before pointing to fluorescent Kinesio tapes used as a styling trick throughout his presentation. “That shit really works,” he said. And while Dyne is still small, it wasn’t hard to imagine the label sprinting ahead—fitness garb as daywear isn’t going anywhere, and Bevans hits a sweet spot that makes it feel desirable all over again.
11 July 2017