Tagline
Destruction and Construction
DEVOA is a menswear brand launched in Japan in 2005 by Daisuke Nishida. Drawing on his experience as a former wrestler and his studies in sports medicine, human ergonomics, and anatomy, the brand creates clothing centered on pattern construction informed by the range of motion, muscles, and skeletal structure of the human body. The brand’s official statements highlight an architecture of materials and patterns, a unique hypothesis about the shape of the human body, and changes in muscle balance through clothing. It continues to design and produce in Japan.
Concept
Explores an architecture of materials and patterns, grounded in a unique hypothesis on the form of the human body. Believes in the transformation of muscle balance, through well informed clothing.