A small capsule made with the Australian based store Up There: a short sleeve shirt, shorts, a track jacket and track pants.

The starting point is the Dutch gabber scene, well loved in Australia and home to the hakkûh dance (hakken, to Australians), a link between two countries on opposite sides of the earth. Throughout the ’90s, tracksuits from a brand called Australian came to represent that tight-knit scene. For this capsule, the look was run through the Camiel Fortgens lens.

Nylon was the core of that look, so the capsule goes the other way, using up-cycled, overdyed lightweight cotton check from previous Camiel Fortgens seasons. The track set is crisp SS21 gingham left over from the C.F. office, overdyed olive, with contrast UP THERE green zip tape, a nod to Prada’s SS17 season. The shirt and shorts revisit the check from Up There’s first season with Camiel Fortgens (SS24), originally light brown and rinse washed in indigo blue, with the reverse side showing to bring out the blue.

The story has an Australian side too. In the early 2000s, the Melbourne Shuffle formed in Victoria, Up There’s home state in Australia, its floating motion reading like a low-friction take on hakkûh. For the campaign, Up There worked with one of its most recognisable dancers, Francis Vo, aka francisvoxo, whose teenage films shot in backyards and half-finished garages spread through MySpace, Bebo and early YouTube.