JUDY BLAME CAPSULE COLLECTION

To mark the 27th anniversary of its Tokyo store, SOPH. is releasing a capsule collection by uniform experiment with Judy Blame on Monday 2 November. The project was made in partnership with Trust Judy Blame, the charity set up to preserve and pass on the work and legacy of the British stylist, art director and jewellery designer, who died in 2018.

Judy Blame, born in 1960, was one of the defining figures of London's 1980s and 90s style press and club scene, associated with the House of Beauty and Culture collective. He worked as a stylist for magazines such as i-D and The Face and became known for jewellery assembled from what others threw away: safety pins, buttons, keys and objects scavenged from the banks of the Thames. That do-it-yourself approach, which found value in ordinary things, is the subject of the tribute.

uniform experiment is the line of the Tokyo label SOPH. Rather than reproducing the jewellery itself, the collection takes its motifs, from safety pins to pieces made from Thames finds, and puts them into the graphics of everyday clothes. On the Collective Cross Flight Jacket, a black MA-1 style bomber, a cross made of Blame's symbols runs down the back above the words BLAME and uniform experiment.

The SOPH. page lists, among other pieces, the Collective Cross Flight Jacket at ¥99,000, the Richest Dreams Coach Jacket and Jewellery Jacquard Knit at ¥44,000 each, and Jewellery Printed Shirts at ¥39,600. The capsule goes on sale on 2 November at SOPH. stores, on the SOPH. online store and at V.A. The SOPH. page suggests the online sale may follow on a different day, so check there before the launch.