JAPANESE SENSIBILITIES
Focusing on their ambition of creating forward-thinking designs rooted in functionality and quality, TOKYO DESIGN STUDIO New Balance and Snow Peak used a GORE-TEX waterproof membrane for the utilitarian R_C4 silhouette.
ABOUT TOKYO DESIGN STUDIO
New Balance TOKYO DESIGN STUDIO New Balance is New Balance’s Japanese-design incubator that is focused on interpreting the American footwear brand in a purely Japanese way, with the aim of marrying materials, processes, and innovations in new ways. Despite being recently established as an experimental arm of the New Balance brand, TOKYO DESIGN STUDIO New Balance and GORE-TEX have become close collaborators.