POST ARCHIVE FACTION (PAF)

A future that seems distant yet imminent; a cold, barren dystopia. This is the world of POST ARCHIVE FACTION (PAF). Launched in 2018, the Korean menswear brand fuses avant-garde sportswear with futuristic outerwear to create imaginative collections that stand apart from the fashion mainstream. As an "anti-fashion" brand, PAF expresses its world view through the unconventional, the underground and the useless. PAF resists easy categorization, yet its high-tech fabrics, reflective textiles, pairing of clear PVC with asymmetric construction, crinkle techniques and paneled tailoring are unmistakably post-apocalyptic. By deconstructing and reassembling trousers, jackets, shirts and sweatshirts, it turns the familiar into the unfamiliar, and that is the magic of PAF. Wrapped in grey, black and white, the collections express an aesthetic that resonates with an eerie, desolate world, and their inventive, calculated designs reveal PAF's anti-establishment stance.