Australian label Ksubi is a cult; such is the power of its following. The behemouth label's latest collection, 'Radical Departure From Nothing' is a challenge, questioning our slide into a new decade. Are we welcoming social change? Are we revolutionising? Or are we so enamoured with our own progressivism that we are radically departing from nothing at all, really? 

Questioning conformity and asking the wearer to think about the divide between decay and pollination, Ksubi makes bold cultural statments with its brash brand of urban chic. The Ksubi charachter seems almost to have risen from a post apocalyptic world where nothing is as it seems; reality is twisted. Using Ksubi's signature 'dumb smart' techniques, the collection sees fabrics including leather, lace, denim and knits used in bricolage to create a pastiche of akin to the Coney Island Warriors and their antithetic tribal peers.

Calling on the spirit of the journeyman, Ksubi blends the Australian open road mythology of Mad Max and The Cars That Ate Paris to create something gloriously B (on at A+ scale). Muted tones with splashes of pink recall rough, earthen terrains, a post-industrial world that is romantically sunbleached.

With a return to artisan techniques, ksubi denim in 2011 incorporates hand dye finishes and one off customisations. Applied by ksubi artist Paul Bonomelli sleeveless denim jacket embellished in gold safety pins and dome studding, cut off short with reflective gold foil, and sky blue jean blanket stitched with hand abrasion and bandana patches for distinct and unique looks.