DPM: London Contour
Maharishi reveals its latest pattern, DPM: London Contour, which honours the history of cartography and the continued exploration of the art of camouflage.Cartography and mapmaking have been amongst the most important developments in human history for millennia, allowing explorers to traverse the planet and interpret the world around them.DPM: Bonsai Forest · Blaze Woodland
For AW23, Maharishi takes inspiration from the Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia by taking the DPM: Bonsai Forest pattern, and implementing blaze orange into the colour palette.DPM: Tigerskins
For SS22, Maharishi reproduce a rare Tigerstripe camouflage variant dubbed 'Golden Tigerskins', originating in Vietnam during the 1960s.DPM: Monster Tiger
AW21's disruptive pattern is a faithful reproduction of the extremely rare camouflage DPM: Monster Tiger, historically only found in the Tailor Shops of 1960s Vietnam that provided visiting U.S. soldiers with uniforms and modifications.DPM: ARVN/Purples
Produced within a series for the Maha Tailor Shop, DPM: ARVN – also known as ‘Purples’, ‘Bulletproofs’ or ‘Bloodcake’ – is a rare camouflage originally worn by paratroopers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in 1968, and then adopted by some of the U.S. Special Forces whilst they acted as advisors to the ARVN.U.S. uniforms were re-made in the Vietnamese pattern in local factories or tailor shops – in part because this helped show some solidarity with the ARVN, and in part because of the popularity of the pattern itself during the 1960s.DPM: Mamushi
AW20 sees the introduction of DPM: Mamushi – a two-layer disruptive pattern inspired by the camouflage commonly worn by South Korean high school students who received military training during the 1970s–1990s.DPM: Desert Rain
Acknowledging the increasing unpredictability of weather, as man treads so heavily on planet Earth, DPM: Desert Rain fuses East German Strichtarn rain camo with elements of U.S. Desert Battle Dress Uniform (DBDU) ‘choc chip’ camo.DPM: Desert Rain is offered alongside a sparser variant – DPM: Neo Rain – that nods to the varying sparsities of the grailed Vietnamese Tigerstripe camouflage.DPM: Chacruna Forest Stripe
maharishi’s AW19 disruptive pattern DPM: Chacruna Forest unifies the nations by blending elements of Belgian and U.S. Tigerstripe camouflage patterns.DPM: Leopard
SS19’s camouflage pattern draws inspiration from the leopard camouflage of the Zairean Army during the 70s and 80s.DPM: Tigardstripe
DPM: Tigardstripe fuses multiple disruptive patterns — creating an entirely new camouflage. Artworks take traditional tigerstripe shapes infilled with a leopard print, imagining a fantasy disruptive pattern that would be born if these powerful animals were to mate. A further variation of DPM: Tigardstripe layers the tigerstripe shapes over the Desert colourway of Maharishi’s house pattern DPM: Bonsai.DPM: REDACTED US WOODLAND 81
In Autumn Winter 2018 maharishi explores the dichotomy of corporations and governments seeking to surveil their citizens, whilst unwillingly having their own secrets exposed.DPM: Cumulus
The Spring Summer 2018 collection continues to reflect Maharishi’s perennial journey to the top of the mountain, being reminded that the journey is the destination.
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