In the AW23 debut collection at Pitti Uomo in Palazzo Pucci, VAIN looks back to the early 2000´s rural Finland, the time and place before the internet and social media ruled everything. The time when the music, movies, posters, and video games – and your older siblings were the source of inspiration and information. The world was filtered through the older siblings. Back then it was a little something, now it’s always everything simultaneously.

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VAIN is an interdisciplinary design project by the Helsinki based artist Jimi Vain. What started as a one-man design project back in 2019 has since evolved into a prominent independent fashion label.

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Selected high quality materials, subtle cultural references and extreme attention to detail are the defining hallmarks of VAIN. Regardless of its contemporary origins, the values and sentiments behind VAIN are as old and simple as humanity itself. In an evermore technocratic world it’s sometimes easy to forget that what brings us together as humans is the love we have, and VAIN is all about love.

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JIMI VAIN is a creative polymath of the post-internet generation. Since 2019 he has been located in Helsinki, Finland, but his origins lie further up North. Jimi’s work is deeply personal. The environment he grew up in, the art he consumes and the people he loves are all sources of inspiration that fuel his creative process.

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Text source JimiVain.fi