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The Paris-based DJ joins the brand’s Community as a Form of Research project, turning a utility vest and 100 questions into a portrait of movement, memory, and instinct
Stone Island has always treated research as more than a technical process. It happens in the lab, yes — in dyes, fibres, finishes, coatings, and impossible fabric experiments — but it also happens in people. In how they move, what they notice, what they remember, and what they wear when they are fully inside their own rhythm.
That idea sits at the centre of Community as a Form of Research, the brand’s ongoing project bringing together artists, musicians, athletes, actors, designers, and cultural figures from across the Stone Island universe. Launched in 2024, the series has included names such as Liam Gallagher, Spike Lee, Chy Cartier, Paolo Maldini, Chito Vera, A. G. Cook, Charlie Hunnam, Feid, and Hans Ulrich Obrist. For its latest chapter, DJ Yuvie steps into the frame.
Rather than building the portrait through a conventional interview, Stone Island approaches Yuvie through 100 questions— a format that feels less like promotion and more like a strange personality map. The questions move through gratitude, memory, instinct, and private sensation, including the moment she would most like to relive: hearing Martin Garrix’s “Animals” for the first time.
That answer feels fitting. Yuvie’s world is built around sound as physical memory: the drop you never forget, the room changing temperature, the way a track can lodge itself in the body before you have time to explain why. Stone Island’s interest in her makes sense because the brand has always been drawn to people who treat their own field as a kind of experiment.
In the accompanying imagery, Yuvie wears the G100006 COTTON NYLON MICRO RIPSTOP utility vest from Stone Island’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection. The piece is rendered in off-white lightweight cotton-nylon, garment-dyed with an anti-drop agent and built with multiple pockets, tape-trim details, and a knit mesh lining. It sits somewhere between equipment and uniform — practical, clean, and slightly obsessive in the way Stone Island garments often are.
The vest is joined by matching 3100036 COTTON NYLON MICRO RIPSTOP cargo trousers, also garment-dyed in the same fabric. Together, the pieces continue the brand’s long-running tension between function and identity: clothing designed for use, but charged with enough material specificity to become a visual code.
What makes Community as a Form of Research interesting is that it refuses to separate product from person. Stone Island is not simply placing garments on famous bodies. It is building an archive of attitudes around them — asking how clothing behaves when it enters different disciplines, cities, sounds, and rituals.
With Yuvie, the project becomes a portrait of club culture as another kind of laboratory. The booth, like the studio or the dye room, is a place of pressure, precision, repetition, and transformation. A track is tested on bodies. A garment is tested in motion. Research, in Stone Island’s world, is never finished. It just keeps changing form.
Photos: Stone Island