TACTIC SET 01

I got deep into the aesthetic of CS and Call of Duty. It wasn’t even really about the military. It was more about that kind of obsession where every element has a function and nothing is there by accident. And I thought: okay, what if we took that same rigor and put it somewhere completely different? A concert. A rave. A club. Night. Bass. That’s how TACTIC began. From the start, I wanted this outfit to actually work.

Not just look good in a photo. That’s why the pockets aren’t decorative. You’ve got your phone, wallet, glasses, whatever. You put them in and forget about them. Everything has its place. The fabric behaves a little like a diving suit. It’s flexible, but it holds its structure. You can move in it, and it doesn’t collapse around the silhouette. Then we started armoring it. A Kevlar-inspired texture appeared. I wanted the material itself to evoke something durable.

And that’s not the end of it. Eventually, I want to build this construction out of carbon fiber. We took the protective panels from bulletproof vests. No, they won’t stop a bullet. That’s not the point. The point is the silhouette. Taking something you’d normally see on a battlefield and suddenly putting it under a strobe light at three in the morning. The hood couldn’t just be a hood either. We cut it with sharp angles.

Left. Right. Up. No soft, polite curves. Then there’s the ribbing. I had the Mustang from Mad Max in my head here. A car that looks like it wants to run you over even when it’s standing still. I wanted that same tension in the clothing. The zippers? As always with us. Nothing is accidental. Even on the inside, where no one but the owner will ever look, we hid a slogan. And then there’s the buckle on the trousers. A small detail you could easily have overlooked.

So, obviously, we didn’t. We designed it to be an object in its own right. Visually heavy, technical, precise. The kind of buckle you wouldn’t mistake for one from any other pair of trousers. And that’s exactly what TACTIC is about. I didn’t want to make military-inspired clothing. There’s plenty of that out there. I wanted to take the logic of the battlefield — function, precision, construction, readiness — and throw it somewhere you’d never expect to find it.

Onto the dance floor. TACTIC SET. Karl Tomas. Battlefield engineering. Rave mentality. For those who feel equally at home in both.

Details

• Includes: hooded jacket with vest panels, cargo trousers
• Limited edition: 5 pieces