FW 26/27
In the EXTRA HOURS collection, Usual Suspect reflects on individual heritage as something built day by day, through work, persistence, and the choices made over time. Not as a material inheritance, but as experience, learning, and identity shaped by practice and routine.
EXTRA HOURS represents an extra effort driven by the desire for more, and a commitment that goes beyond obligation. Continuing from the figure of the worker — the starting point of the previous collection, Last Employee — this collection emerges from the will to go further within that reality. It is not about leaving work behind, but about resisting its limitations, in search of more and better for the Designer and his family, through a form of fulfillment that is not monetary, but deeply professional, personal, and artistic. Creating thus becomes an act of affirmation: doing something beyond obligation, something he is proud of, that truly represents him and allows him to grow both as an individual and as a creator.
The material selection reflects this reality. The Designer works with materials he has gathered over time, old garments belonging to himself and his family, using them as a physical archive of his story. By reusing them, he seeks to build an honest aesthetic language, connected to his path and to the real conditions in which he creates.
