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Scott: When I started my blog it was with a simple idea,
travel the world searching for people who's style define who we are today.
(light music playing)
My name is Scott Schuman and I am the Satoralist.
For me, good design is about finding simple elements
and bringing them together to create something both functional and beautiful.
When I hung out with Olympic fencer, Tim Morehouse,
seeing and hearing about clothing really inspired me to have a best [mate].
Tim: Fencing is very much about fashion.
Designers have actually used fencing for inspiration.
When you see jackets that zip on the side, that really comes from fencing.
Scott: The fencing outfit hasn't really changed for hundreds of years.
It worked then and it works now.
Kirk Miller has been working as both a designer and tailor for nearly 20 years.
It's a craft that's been in his family for three generations.
Kirk: I always dreamed to be able to edit myself down to just those really raw essentials.
Scott: But like all good designers, Kirk doesn't copy,
he studies form and function and then makes it his own
Kirk: You think about mens clothing in general and it's always usually based on something military-esk,
All right so we're going to have to find a print,
that will be our next big challenge and then figure out how we're going to ...
Scott: I like that Japanese idea, like a Japanese and Chinese,
I think mixing fencing with samurai could be kind of fun.
Kirk: Right, right.
Scott: With a Chinese kind of print.
It's like my version of a tie, maybe there's a little bit of a scarf there.
Scott: I went back to see Kirk for what is called the first fitting.
With bespoke tailoring the options are endless,
it's a collaboration, but often you're just trusting the judgement of the tailor.
Kirk: I was trying to find something a little bit more masculine, color-wise.
Finding masculine [batique] is sometimes a bit of a challenge.
Scott: They might look really cool in something like that.
We might use that.
How much yardage do you need?
Kirk: Probably a yard and a half.
Kirk: I took those two and that's what I thought we'd try to do,
just as tests in terms of the quilting suit.
You said you wanted to maybe fool around with that quilting.
That's a little bit more of a half moon idea.
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Scott: So cool.
Kirk: I left a few things unfinished so we could still fool around with it, but this is our general.
We put in a zipper, we did a bit of a hand dye job here and did a double dip Indigo dye.
Scott: Quilting techniques.
Kirk: We thought we'd come up with something a little bit unusual rather than having it be too ...
Scott: Yeah, is there a particular pattern?
Kirk: No there's not, there's not.
We kind of just fooled around with it.
Scott: Should I try it on?
Kirk: Yeah, let's do it.
So here are snaps.
Scott: It was fascinating working with Kirk on this piece.
Getting to see the design process from the inception to the finished item,
to be inspired by something and then translate that in to a unique bespoke piece.