La collaborazione KARHU by zomer è uno studio sulla dualità — dove il patrimonio incontra la sperimentazione, la precisione si fonde con il gioco e due prospettive si uniscono in una sola. La Mestari Kesä prende una silhouette d’archivio di KARHU e la reinterpreta attraverso la lente audace ed espressiva di zomer. Il suo design a colori divisi incarna questo equilibrio, una rappresentazione visiva di contrasto e coesistenza. Attraverso materiali, forme e colori, questa partnership sfida le convenzioni restando saldamente radicata nell’artigianalità, dimostrando che il miglior design nasce proprio nello spazio tra gli opposti.

For this upcoming collaboration we wanted to strip down to the essentials, the shoes that we walk on. Creating new shapes by using body movement, skin and the shoe. Shaping the body into something raw, fluid, and precise all at once.

Through the lens of Dan Tobin Smith and his technical approach to photography, the stills hold movement in a tight grip. Professional dancers, wearing nothing but sneakers, twist, and fold into fleeting shapes. The result is a frozen frame that contains with leftover energy, the echo of bodies in motion. In the final photograph, we can anticipate the before and after of the shot, which is also part of the final conceptual construction of the shoot, perceive movement before stillness. A series of mandalas created by bodies, rigid structures formed by organic components that lose their human shape in the collective, where the shoes are the only piece that reveals the beginning, or the end, of the bodies. This idea reflects the intersection between form and function, where the human body and its movement serve as the foundation and final expression of creativity.

Heritage in Motion

This collaboration is a dialogue between past and present—where KARHU’s legacy of Finnish craftsmanship meets zomer’s instinct for pushing boundaries. The Mestari Kesä reimagines an archival classic, proving that heritage is never static but always in motion.