For two decades END. has grown from a Northen UK retail destination into an internationally recognised tastemaker, curating streetwear, sportswear, and avant-garde fashion for a generation of collectors, creatives, and culture enthusiasts. Along the road, Stone Island has become a natural partner, the Italian outerwear pioneers whose exploration of materials and technical innovation mirrors END.’s commitment to quality, originality, and cultural relevance.
This release, the limited-edition Traslucent Cover-TC & Plated Reflective Jacket merges the expertise of both companies. At the heart of this collaboration lies a detail that is even rare by Stone Island’s high standards: the white-edged badge. Only ever used on extremely-limited experimental projects.
Emerald Green, a Colour with Meaning
The jacket’s emerald green is traditionally associated with the 20th anniversary gemstone, it serves as a nod to the longevity, endurance, and value of the partnership. The emerald green also provides a canvas for the jacket’s dual-material design, enhancing the translucency of the outer shell.
END. and Stone Island’s shared history runs deep. From early collaborative capsule projects to experimental drops, both brands have consistently pushed the boundaries of what functionality can be. END., founded in 2003, has always combined street sensibility with a global perspective. Meanwhile, Stone Island, has remained a relentless innovator since its founding in 1982, redefining outerwear through groundbreaking research, garment dyeing techniques, and material treatments.
Traslucent Cover-TC
The outer layer is made out of Stone Island’s Traslucent Cover-TC, a semi-transparent, windproof material developed for its capacity to interact dynamically with light and environment. Unlike a traditional outer shell, the fabric allows wearers to reveal the liner beneath. Garment dyed in Italy using controlled processes, the shell acquires a certain depth. The jacket features classic elements like press-stud pockets, vented armpits, and drawstrings at the hood.
Hidden beneath the translucent outer is the Plated Reflective liner, which offers a separate layer of technical innovation. It is made from nylon canvas and treated with a reflective resin bath containing thousands of micro-glass spheres, it transforms under different lighting conditions. The Plated Reflective liner offers multiple pockets for storage, a funnel neck for warmth and protection, and insulation for some balance.
The white-stitched Stone Island badge on the sleeve elevates the release. Normally this badge is reserved for pieces where research and experimentation converge. The white-stitched badge is rare, it is a marker that falls outisde the brand’s familiar hierarchy of green, black, and even ghost badges. To understand why END.’s anniversary jacket carries the white emblem, you have to look back at Stone Island’s long-standing philosophy of pushing fabrics to its limits, of exploring treatments and dyeing processes so radical they often require entirely new manufacturing methods. The white badge is usually reserved for garments part of this lineage, pieces made in extremely small quantities, often serving as proof-of-concept experiments for ideas that never reach a wide production.
In the case of the END. Traslucent Cover-TC & Plated Reflective Jacket, the white badge feels as a certificate. The jacket brings teo highly technical processes rarely seen together. A semi-transparent, garment-dyed outer shell capable of interacting with the liner beneath, and a plated reflective inner treated with micro-glass spheres through the complex resin-bathing method. Due to these extremely difficult methods, and the limited quantity in which the jacket is released, makes it the perfect piece for a white badge.
