Realistic Chic

Today's fashion focus is on the newly released Canadian romance between Douglas Coupland and Roots. With quite a lot of backstory about how this came to be (including video interviews with Coupland's artistic style woven into them), the fashion line proves to be entirely based on one concept: the emergence of the electronic era in Canada in the 1950's-mixed with the silhouettes of today's 20-something wearer. Varsity jackets with Radio tower patches, sling bags with dot matrix font, leggings with circuit board prints, and of course, the test pattern that is so iconic of the era throughout:

Here's a sample of the line (mostly just the stuff I want):

Click here to see more. As much as I LOVE him, I admit I expected something a little more innovative from Coupland. Perhaps some of that 3-dimensional interactive design like a wallet that unfolds into a box, or a jacket that comes apart into 4 different pieces for 4 different looks, or something equally crazy and neat. I guess I just didn't want it to be all about the print and not about the working of the fabric. What do you think of it? Like it or no? Why? And are you a fan of his outside these designs?