Glenn Kitson Shoots Eight Stone Island Collectors

Glenn Kitson photographed the eight collectors of Stone Island's Passport documentary behind the scenes of the film, and the portraits give the project a still record of the people who keep the brand's archive in circulation. Stone Island shared the set under Selected Works, The Collector Series, with Kitson credited as photographer.

Eight Collectors, Seven Cities, One Photographer

Passport follows eight Stone Island collectors across seven cities, and Kitson directed the film as well as shooting the portraits made around it. The cities are London, Paris, Naples, New York, Toronto, Seoul and Tokyo, and the film screened at The Cinema at Selfridges on September 23, 2026.

The portraits carry the film's cast into a second format. The eight people in front of Kitson's camera are the collectors and shops behind the Selfridges programme: Arco Maher, Better Gift Shop, 'bout, 194 Local, Holsales, Metallic Curtain, Pezze and SimJae. The Seoul photographer SimJae had already answered one of Stone Island's 100 Questions in August, so his appearance in Passport is his second turn in front of a Stone Island camera this season.

Kitson was a natural choice because he had filmed this community once before. His short film A Sorpres, released in March 2026 alongside the opening of Stone Island's Naples flagship, followed the city's vintage Stone Island scene, with a soundtrack by the anonymous Neapolitan artist Liberato. Passport widens that frame from one city to seven.

Selfridges Rebuilds Itself Every Week

The Collector Series runs in the Corner Shop at Selfridges from September 21 to November 6, 2026, and the room changes every week as a new collector takes over. Willo Perron designed the space as a modular structure that is reconfigured with each rotation, so the shop on October 13 is not the shop that opened on September 21.

Stone Island calls the project its first formal collaboration with independent collectors. Each of them sells archive pieces from their own stock beside the current collection and items made exclusively for Selfridges. The archive highlights include a 1993 reflective jacket and a 2007 David TC sublimation print, and the opening programme listed a 1989 Ice Jacket and a 2001 Monofilament Camo jacket.

Holsales held the floor from October 5 to 11 with a Liquid Reflective Field Jacket, a coat whose surface is hand sprayed with thousands of glass microspheres and baked dry. The film and the shop answer each other: one shows where the pieces were found, the other lets a buyer walk out with them.

The programme around the shop is built for the same audience. A panel at Central Saint Martins pairs Stone Island designers Paul Harvey and Aitor Throup with chairman Carlo Rivetti, and Stone Island is official partner of Frieze Focus at Frieze London for a twelfth year. Chief executive Robert Triefus has framed the project as a way to bring the archive into dialogue with the collectors who have preserved and interpreted it over four decades.

Massimo Osti Started the Archive in 1982

Massimo Osti founded Stone Island in 1982, so every piece these collectors hold comes from the 44 years since. The Stone Island compass badge he took from his own wooden sailboat has been fastened to the sleeve with two snap buttons ever since, and its stitched edge, green before 2000 and black afterward, is how collectors date a jacket on sight.

That dating habit is the skill Passport records. A collector in Tokyo or Toronto reads a badge edge, an article number and a fabric the way a record dealer reads a matrix number, and the eight people in Kitson's portraits are the ones whose stock the brand now borrows for its own shop window. Moncler has owned Stone Island since a 2020 acquisition worth 1.15 billion euros, and Selected Works is the first project in which the company hands its own shop floor to the independent buyers and sellers who kept older stock moving. Their stock includes 1989 and 1993 pieces that no current collection reproduces, and the programme lists each of them by name.

Selected Works now has three parts: the written 100 Questions series curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Corner Shop takeover, and the film. Kitson's portraits are the fourth object in that set, and the only one that will outlast the shop. The takeover closes on November 6, 2026.