A Finnish brand is turning McDonald’s uniforms into high fashion

The Helsinki-dependent fashion label VAIN has just launched a exclusive collaboration with the rapid food stuff giant. The model used McDonald’s personnel uniforms as the base ingredients for a collection of upcycled garments.

The uniform’s normal shirts and trousers had been reworked into billowing dresses, slouchy hoodies and tiny mini skirts, among other items.

For the brand’s designer, the collaboration was an prospect to hook up with beloved imagery from his youth.

“When I was to start with offered with the notion of a McDonald’s workwear trend task I was immediately intrigued,” said Jimi Vain, VAIN’s creative director and designer, in the release. “Rising up in a extremely rural component of Finland, there were not actually any devoted areas for us to cling out as teens. The nearby McDonald’s sort of fulfilled that perform for us.”

“Also, it was the closest we could get to world pop culture out there in the north,” Vain’s assertion continued. “We spent many evenings, and made lots of memories, hanging about the community McDonald’s.”

The assortment remixes people acquainted motifs, experimenting with the legendary McDonald’s golden arch symbol as a belt buckle, and mixing the brand’s crimson-and-yellow shade palette with grays and blacks.

The assortment used a combination of McDonald’s uniforms and other textiles to create 1-of-a-sort garments. Credit rating: Vain Manner Group

Finnish McDonald’s staff members will have a prospect to have the distinctive clothes, the brand reported. The 27 pieces from the VAIN assortment will be readily available to McDonald’s staff members in the nation through an internal raffle, according to a brand name consultant.

But the garments are “just for enjoyment,” a consultant for VAIN instructed CNN above e-mail — staff members would not in fact be equipped to use the remixed uniforms to perform.

In 2014, vogue designer Jeremy Scott took inspiration from the cafe chain in his debut collection for the Italian luxury model Moschino. The label’s Slide-Winter season 2014 show showcased uniform-inspired silhouettes and a Pleased Food handbag.