5000 LAB 2026 LOOKBOOK
Consulting, casting, and styling 5000 Lab Lookbook presented during NYFW SS26. Designed by Taylor Thompson under his recent nomination as Emerging Designer of the Year for the CFDA Fashion Awards.
The collection forwent a concept, considering instead a fundamental idea in Japanese design theory called Ma (間). It dictates that negative space is as crucial to a composition as are the elements themselves. Meaning, empty spaces are not so, and are instead a deliberate void that bring balance and harmony to the whole.