Should you thought legendary sport director Hideo Kojima would simply give us a no-nonsense have a look at the upcoming Demise Stranding 2 at this 12 months’s Tokyo Sport Present, you had been fallacious. Positive, throughout the weekend we bought an opportunity to see the upcoming sequel’s spectacular picture mode, modeled by the Hollywood actors who Kojima has scanned and positioned into the extremely anticipated sport. However we didn’t simply get that: we additionally bought an opportunity to have a look at (and positively not purchase) an unbelievable Demise Stranding 2: On The Seaside jacket collaboration between Kojima Productions and high-end outerwear firm Acronym.
I say “positively not purchase” as a result of the complete assortment offered out inside minutes of its announcement (which got here noon Sunday), and likewise since you are very seemingly to not be the form of one that would spend greater than $1,700 on a jacket. (Nonetheless, I’d be remiss if I didn’t level out that Acronym is just like the Cadillac of drippy outerwear.) The jacket, often known as the J91-WSDB, is modular, which implies it may be modified (it’s bought a detachable hood and a strap that permits you to take it off and carry it like a bag) , so that you’re getting a couple of jackets for the value of 1 very costly one. The jacket can be proven being worn underneath and over completely different Acronym designs, like a spiked outer layer and a sheer paneled bodysuit. Kojima is the mannequin in a few of these footage, which is such a G transfer.
The jacket is available in black with orange particulars or orange with black particulars, and there are a number of nods to Demise Stranding hidden within the admittedly very cool design. There’s “DOOMS solely” textual content written in low-profile font close to the wrist of one of many sleeves, a large Drawbridge brand (the corporate Sam Porter Bridges will work for within the sequel), and what appears to be like to be just a little cryptobiote keychain hanging off one of many straps.
Each colorways offered out not too lengthy after they had been introduced, which is a bummer. I’m an enormous fan of online game clothes collaborations being really cool and trendy fairly than dorky and overly simplistic, like screenprinted tees or garishly patterned blazers. Manufacturers like ARK/8 are embodying this motion in the direction of outfitting players in cool shit, and this Acronym x Kojima Productions collaboration is one other nice instance of how video games might be mined for sick suits.