SC East Bengal on Monday launched their home, away and third kit for
the 2020-21 Hero Indian Super League (ISL) season.
The club management partnered with the exceptionally talented Meghna
Nayak, a young designer from Bengal who is a pioneer of sustainable design and
someone who has passionately advocated for keeping things local.
An environment-conscious designer,
Nayak is an original thinker who has taken Bengal's creativity to the
world and been exhibited in Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Vietnam, Sri
Lanka, Kenya, and all over India with her brand LataSita.
While the club received numerous submissions, it was looking for a
designer to present concepts that were completely original. Nayak’s concepts
for SC East Bengal, inspired by the Flame, the ‘Ilish’ or Hilsa fish, and the
Royal Bengal Tiger of the Sunderbans instantly appealed to the club.
“The jerseys look amazing. The bright red and gold home kit has
traditionally been synonymous with the club and with the flaming torch adding
to the firepower. Our away and third kits also have a lot of tradition
ingrained in them which makes it even more special,” SC East Bengal head coach
Robbie Fowler said.
“I am in love with the home kit already. I think it has positive
energy to it and looks good too. I can’t wait to don the shirt and take the
field,” said Anthony Pilkington.
“The jerseys ooze a sense of pride. I am absolutely thrilled to be
wearing them and I believe the fans will love them too. We want the legacy of
the club to always be with us and these shirts have that,” added Danny Fox.
“It is every footballer’s dream to don SC East Bengal colours and I
am delighted to be able to do that. The jerseys look nice and well designed.
They fit well too and are comfortable,” Jeje Lalpekhlua further said.
Home Kit:
The Home kit is a stylised version of the very flame in the club
logo. The rendition in red and yellow continues to signal the dynamism and
firepower of the team but adapting it to new design sensibilities. “It had to
be simple, iconic, and distinctly recognizable from afar.” said Nayak.
Away Kit:
The Away kit in blue and white is a cheeky nod to the Ilish or Hilsa
fish that is inextricably associated with families that famously feast on Hilsa
after an East Bengal win. The design can be interpreted as fish scales, armour
or water to depict the waters that flow between and forever connect East and
West Bengal, and provide life and livelihood to its people. Most importantly,
these very rivers, our lifeline, are over-polluted and cleaning the rivers and
water bodies that sustain us is the need of the hour,” Nayak said.
Third Kit:
The third kit had to be something different, and the inspiration was
the Bengal Tiger. “What better symbol to invoke than the fierceness of the
beast indistinguishably associated with Bengal,” said Nayak. The pride, energy
and power that the Tiger invokes, the uniqueness of its home - the Sunderbans,
which protect our region from all sorts of environmental impacts and provide
livelihoods to millions of people, was the perfect symbol for our third jersey.
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May 04, 2021 17:23 [IST]