STEALTH SYSTEM HOKA x Materia
During Milan Fashion Week, HOKA and MATERIA brought a collaborative project to a live runway, a space usually governed by a very particular idea of who gets to move through it, and how. STEALTH SYSTEM put para-athletes at the center of that space, structured the show around actual athletic movement, and built every design decision outward from there.
The HOKA Stealth Tech Pack gave the project its material foundation. Three silhouettes, Bondi 7, Mafate Speed 2, Speedgoat 2, reinterpreted through a technical and tonal restraint that shifts register depending on the light. Reflective detailing activates after dark, turning what reads as quiet into something conspicuous. The logic is honest: visibility when it counts, discretion when it does not.
MATERIA's eight exclusive looks followed the same reasoning. An independent label with a consistent position, avant-garde design thinking, genuine accessibility, sustainable material research, MATERIA built garments that accommodate reduced mobility and disability without folding those requirements into the background. Adaptive solutions made visible, not hidden. Reflective treatments on selected pieces connected the clothing directly to the footwear system, producing a coherent object language across the collaboration.
On the runway: Francesco Loragno, Fabio Bottazzini, Livia Cecagallina, Joyce Mattagliano, Mattia Padovani, Pierre Claver Ahoua, Lara De Pretto and Vanessa Zenelhoxha. Each person moved through their own discipline within a warm-up-to-cool-down structure that kept the athletic frame intact. As garments were layered or removed, the adaptive engineering became legible in motion, which is, after all, the only honest place to evaluate it.
The set gave the work its atmosphere: raw stone, mirrored surfaces, a frosted wall that rendered athletes first as silhouette, then in full presence. Sound by @bubbling000 set the register without dominating it.
The project was curated by Circular Agency
Words by Donald Gjoka
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