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National Forest is a graphic studio formed by American artists Steven Harrington and Justin Krietemeyer. For the time-scanning SIXPACK France Autumn/Winter 09 line, they designed a very specific capsule-collection homage to Superstudio's Fundamental Acts series. Created from 1971 to 1973, the »Fundamental Acts« were a series of 5 experimental movies centred on the relations between architecture as a conscious formalization of the planet, and human life. The whole series was based on Gustav Freytag’s classical dramatic structure. Each video made a natural progression into the following five acts: THE EXPOSITION / THE RISING ACTION / THE CLIMAX (or turning point) / THE FALLING ACTION / THE CATASTROPHE

National Forest has adapted this dramatic pyramid structure to the clothing line. The line is composed of five pieces: Life-Youth-Ceremony-Love-Death. With this new collection, National Forest has showed us a new and darker side of their work: »A bizarre travelogue into dramatic architecture«

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