Since 2009, Haans Nicholas Mott has been hermetically working on a hand-built, hand-sewn conceptual menswear project entitled Shroud. Trained as an architect, Haans has been cutting his own patterns and hand building small, tightly edited collections with a maximum of five looks that he personally wears for the duration of the season. Now into its fourth collection, Shroud focuses on the meditative aspects of process-based making, including seams that are hand-stitched in both directions, obsessively hand-painted patterns, and text written in the seams that are sewn closed.  At the end of each season the collection is documented on a woman in film and photography collaborations with artists such as Slater Bradley, and Drew Brown and Sean Donnola. The Shroud project is not offered for sale and can only be seen as worn by Haans or in an exhibition. The debut collection, “Ash 10 to the victors go the spoil”, was exhibited at Tranoi in Paris in January 2010. While he does not allow Shroud to be photographed for editorial, Haans has contributed pieces to Paris-based SOME/THINGS, where his work has been featured with pieces by Rick Owens, Ann Demeulemeester, Yohji Yamamoto, and Carol Christian Poell.  Haans has now quietly announced that he will be producing a hand-made, hand-stitched, limited production, made-to-order menswear line for Fall 2011, available privately through invitation-only trunk shows in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris. Each style of the private label will be limited to fifteen pieces in a small selection of fabrics. The line will not be available in a retail context, unless for a limited time in conjunction with an exhibition of Shroud. All pieces are hand-built in New York, drawing from the unique shapes, hand-stitches, and construction techniques developed in Shroud. Contact inquiry@point14.org for more information.

Photography Sean Donnola

KEYWORDS: Haans Nicholas Mott