Aitor Throup is one of my favourite artist he much rather could be compared to my local people from DemoBaza, cept they have a more commercial appeal

Aitor Throup was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1980. He has also lived in Spain
and finally moved to the northern English town of Burnley when he was twelve. It was in
Burnley that Throup developed a passion for the technologically advanced garments
from labels such as Stone Island and C.P. Company. It was a mixture of Aitor’s interest in
these ground-breaking products and his own passion for drawing and designing comic
book characters that led him to begin a BA in Fashion Design at Manchester
Metropolitan University, from where he graduated with first class honours in 2004. In
2006, he completed an MA Postgraduate Degree in fashion menswear at the Royal
College of Art in London.
Aitor is fascinated with anatomy and his main interest is drawing. Aitor's hand drawn
characters become the primary tool in the exploration of his ‘justified design philosophy’,
which highlights the necessity of a reason or function behind all design features. Aitor's
design process utilises innovative methods of design and construction, in particular a
three stage construction process of ‘drawing, sculpture, garment’. Throup’s graduate
collection from the RCA was entitled ‘When Football Hooligans Become Hindu Gods’
which had a strong narrative thread running through it and a diverse selection of
influences from generic military garments to Hindu symbolism, around which his unique
and innovative design and construction processes were incorporated. He has exhibited
his work at London Fashion Week twice, as part of the MAN show, although not creating
seasonal collections; but rather displaying selected ideas and concepts. His last solo
project was entitled ‘The Funeral Of New Orleans : Part One’, and was exhibited at MAN
in September 2007. The presentation of this collection defied conventional ways of
exhibiting fashion, by choosing to show the pieces on life size sculptures (also created
by Throup) rather than models, each in a different stage of transformation. The
presentation also incorporated a film created in conjunction with SHOWstudio, which
acted as a sort of animated instruction manual, allowing the viewer to not only
understand the transformational mechanics of each piece, but also to learn the narrative
behind the collection.
At ITS#FIVE (International Talent Support #5) Aitor won the Collection of The Year Award
and the I-D Styling Award, and as a result he was a member of the jury at ITS#SIX. He
has also won awards from Levi’s, Umbro, Evisu and Royal Society of Arts amongst
others. He has worked on stories as an Art director/stylist with I-D magazine, Arena
Homme+ and V-Man, and has so far worked on four separate projects with
SHOWstudio. He has exhibited his garments, sculptures and drawings at The Library,
London. In January 2008 Aitor presented his first installment of an on-going seasonal
'Anatomy Series' collaboration with Stone Island at Milan Fashion Week, the results of
which have been stocked in world renowned stores including Dover Street Market in
London, Barneys in New York and L'Eiclareur in Paris amongst others. He has recently
completed and exhibited a special collaboration with C.P. Company, and has also
recently started working as a creative consultant for the British football brand Umbro.