BLAHW FW21 Draws From the Fluidity of Jazz

Takashi Hiratsuka's BLAHW launched in the middle of 2020, a year that could very, very lightly be described as "turbulent." His imprint's soothing minimalism was imagined as a kind of balm to the chaos, a motif that carries over to the Japanese label's Fall/Winter 2021 collection, inspired by Jaco Pastorius' immortal "Portrait of Tracy."Pastorius' most famous solo imparts delicate emotion, texture and atmosphere by way of his deft performance and composition, its seeming effortlessness indicativ...