Fashion February, 28 2010  Hanon VCMP Project Interview – Chris
Johns  Last weekend we gave you a detailed preview of the Hanon
VCMP Project. Today we give you some more background information
on how it all came together.  Since we do not come across many
collaborative projects these days that go much beyond wanting to
create a product, but rather have a strong message behind the
project and communicate something in a meaningful way, we took
some time out to sit down with Chris Johns to talk about how the
VCMP Project came about.  Highsnobiety: Hi guys, can you give
you tell us how the project started? Who had the idea, what was
your inspiration?  Chris Johns: The idea for VCMP came from
Reebok designers Christopher Torres (now working elsewhere) and
Chris Johns. The project started in November 2006 as a simple
discussion about a Vanity Fair article Chris Johns had read. The
article, written by Henry Porter, was both shocking and
enlightening. It described how disturbing things were in the UK
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