Pacific Heartbreaker – Embroidered & Reworked Corduroy Jacket is a one-of-a-kind Fly Art Atelier object developed through embroidery, reconstruction, leather appliqué, and hand intervention on vintage corduroy.
 
Old tattoo imagery, boxing culture, seaside romance, and fragments of forgotten phrases move across the surface like memories stitched directly into the fabric. Wool embroidery replaces ink, allowing traditional tattoo language to feel warmer, slower, and almost human again.
 
Leather boxing gloves, stitched roses, handwritten phrases, and distressed textures create the atmosphere of an old coastal gym somewhere between California, lost summers, and broken promises. Nothing feels polished or perfectly resolved. The object keeps the energy of something worn, altered, repaired, and lived in.
 
Rather than functioning as decoration, each intervention becomes part of the structure itself — embroidery, paint, stitching, and textile layering working together as a single surface.
 
Pacific Heartbreaker exists somewhere between sportswear, souvenir jacket, tattoo archive, and wearable artifact.
 
No duplication.
 
No repetition.
 
Each object evolves directly on the garment, guided by texture, wear, and structure.
 
This is not customization.
 
This is transformation.
 
One-of-a-kind piece.
 
Created at Fly Art Atelier.
 
Fly Art Atelier
 
made with love
 
in California
 
Fly Art Atelier is part of the broader artistic practice of Vladimir Mukhin, a painter and object artist working in California.
 
More works and paintings by Vladimir Mukhin:
 
www.muhinart.com