Batten Sportswear’s debut collection, the brainchild of Shinya Hasegawa, takes influence from Shinya’s time spent surfing, his passion for vintage clothing, and the four years he spent working as Daiki Suzuki’s design assistant at Woolrich Woolen Mills. In the following interview (an excerpt from the forthcoming issue of Pica~Post), Michael Fordham talks at length with Hasegawa about these influen
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