SATURDAY’S KIDS
Photography:
Karl Artur Kangur
Antonio Brondi
Models:
Lorenzo Minganti
Enrico Canini
Emanuele Gessi
Photography:
Karl Artur Kangur
Antonio Brondi
Models:
Lorenzo Minganti
Enrico Canini
Emanuele Gessi
The project borrows its title from The Jam's song about English youth in the early 1980s, whose weeks were built around Saturday — the day the lower leagues play. The editorial works from that premise, bringing together the nostalgia of vintage football and the construction and styling of contemporary streetwear.
The football shirt has moved well beyond the terraces. Publications such as Mundial, central to the rise of blokecore, have argued for the jersey as a design object rather than sportswear alone: a garment that signals allegiance and belonging without a word being said.
We approached the subculture through its own vocabulary. Juggling drills, local pitches, the routines that fill the time before a match. Within this world, clothing is not chosen for taste but worn as a quiet declaration of loyalty.
The football shirt has moved well beyond the terraces. Publications such as Mundial, central to the rise of blokecore, have argued for the jersey as a design object rather than sportswear alone: a garment that signals allegiance and belonging without a word being said.
We approached the subculture through its own vocabulary. Juggling drills, local pitches, the routines that fill the time before a match. Within this world, clothing is not chosen for taste but worn as a quiet declaration of loyalty.