PHIPPS FW23 Embraces "Weird Americana"
With chap jeans, studded workwear, flannel outerwear and more.
For Fall/Winter 2023, PHIPPS is warming its new home in Los Angeles, California. The collection, which marks the brand’s first delivery from its West Coast studio (and celebrates its fifth anniversary), digs into the workwear label’s Parisian archives to update its hit silhouettes with an American design language.
To accomplish such a goal, designer Spencer Phipps leaned into his brand’s rugged workwear roots and embraced the “weird Americana” and the “countercultural outsiders” that exist at the brand’s core. For a sartorial start, he looked to Richard Avedon’s In The American West, a photographic landmark featuring evocative portraits of Western tropes, as well as the works of Kenneth Anger, David Lynch, Alec Soth, Karlheinz Weinberger, William Albert Allard, Richard Prince and more.
Translating to clothes, PHIPPS’ main collection reinvents brand staples, including popular fleeces made from deadstock, studded workwear pants and strong essentials, including ribbed tanks, boxer shorts and unisex denim sets. Elsewhere, the range features chap jeans, composed of upcycled leather scraps and vintage denim from the designer’s LAB division, as well as football jerseys that don embroidery inspired by the San Francisco 49ers’ Steve Young, Joe Montana and Jerry Rice.
While PHIPPS sticks to what it knows best, the brand does push its boundaries further, with new categories including underwear and a move into womenswear. Notably, the collection continues the designer’s collaboration with Woolrich through a series of limited-edition items crafted from deadstock materials.
Peruse PHIPPS’ Fall/Winter 2023 collection in the gallery above.
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