Freewheelers & Co - Collector Sale
Marrkt, in collaboration with @Duke_Mantee are proud to offer his incredible collection of Freewheelers & Co, spanning 20 years of collecting and close association with the brand.
This collection was built from before Freewheelers existed up to the present day. We have a number of items from the period when the company was known as Bootleggers Reunion, from around 2003/04 until 2009. The Lot 213 denim jacket is one of the very earliest pieces.
Prior to founding Freewheelers in 1996, Atsushi Yasui along with Akio Komori and Hiroki Nakamura worked at Joe McCoy. The label was created as an offshoot from Toys McCoy and the original Real McCoys. The first official collection was launched in 2009.
The items span my choices from the early days. My collection reflects the diverse pieces and styles through decades of inspiration - shirts, trousers and jacket styles from the early 1900s through war periods and up until the 1960s and counter-culture. These are clothes that can and should be worn every day.
Many of the pieces are items that will never be seen again. Freewheelers have a concept where some designs are in permanent rotation (which means they will always be produced, albeit in very random years not every year) but many are considered to be representative of a specific collection so are made once only. Barnstormers items are an even more specialist group and output is limited to very small numbers.
Freewheelers denim is of the highest quality - it’s taken them decades to develop and the cloth is entirely their own creation. Even more special is the Wabash - they own the copyright to the Wabash logo and their cloth and dye is the closest I’ve seen to the original.