German fashion house Hugo Boss is getting environmentally friendly with US designer Spencer Phipps on a new gender-less campaign and capsule collection shot by Curated’s Clayton Boyd and we couldn't be more excited for this work. Clayton spent a day hiking on the mountaintops of California’s Roof Crack in Box Spring’s Mountain Reserve Park with Spencer to test his endurance on these cliffs and held up pretty well from what we can see. Thanks to Studio Lou for the tireless production efforts to see this up-cycled, sustainable and culturally diverse campaign brought to life. Here is a little link to the fashion film.
From the pages of Vogue
The diversely cast, desert-shot, and digital hit fashion show—with over 30 million YouTube views and counting—that was Boss’s recent Dubai activationfeatured one especially surprising model: Spencer Phipps.
Now menswear’s most progressive peak-climbing pogonophile has partnered with the German giant once again, this time on a two-drop collaborative collection that launches today. According to Boss, it marks the first time the company has partnered with another fashion brand. True to the smaller brand’s practice, the collection is chiefly upcycled from existing garments and deadstock fabrics and where not—as in the pineapple leather retro climbing sneakers—uses sustainable materials.
Boss-wise, the chief architect of the collection was Marco Falcioni, who recently assumed the mantle as Senior Vice President Creative Direction at the brand. Falcioni, whose beard is every bit as big as Phipps’s, said: “I love what we’ve managed to create. Our clashing aesthetics create a beautiful contradiction—one that has environmental responsibility at its heart.”
