The Hundreds x Gravis Black Box Collection

Last year, established international footwear and bags brand Gravis approached The Hundreds and asked them to work on their annual Black Box Collection. The Collection is hitting select Gravis retailers worldwide, and is set to drop at both The Hundreds LA and The Hundreds SF on Thursday morning at 11am.

This Gravis x The Hundreds bag has some entailing technical features along with its lovely black on black jags, including a secret stash away compartment on the back side.

When the Gravis design team worked on the JETWAY roller bag, they visited different international airports and literally measured the carry-on requirements at each. So they constructed this piece of luggage to be the maximum allowable size to pass as carry-on luggage. The skate wheels are a creative touch to this traditional luggage roller.

If you look in the group photograph above, you can also pick up separately some of the smaller accessories like the Hold All Trio and Terminal Case, which are case units designed to hold anything/everything. Like cameras, phones, passports, anything you might need to travel with and can easily wrap up and toss into your luggage.

So the overall theme, if you haven’t been able to tell already, was to streamline Gravis’ technical luggage and footwear, toning it down with a monochromatic black, highlighted only by a JAGS overlay on various components. The idea was largely to play with colors, darks and lights, so there were bright accents of pop Safety Orange and Lime Green to offset the opaque darkness. When you open up the luggage, the liner virtually glows because of the luminescent colors. We wanted to bring that same mentality to the footwear, so although you’re looking at an overall standard black and white set of sneakers, you’re also drawn to the popped elements like the eyelets and the undersoles, which are literally glowing. Very simple footwear, but very keen on sophisticated detailing.

Hitting Gravis distriutors soon. I know Uncle Otis sells lots of Gravis stuff, so it might show up there, although I would bet that The Hundreds would get a stock of this when it does come out.