To illustrate the edit, Carhartt WIP tapped photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek to provide a glimpse into the lives of artists Rita Lino, Frederik Fialin, and Steffen Grap, at home and at work in their respective studios.
A Portuguese visual artist whose personal work often interrogates a “natural obsession” with the self, Lino plays both the subject and voyeur in her images. She describes her photography as animalistic, intimate, and narcissistic. Since 2015, Lino has published four books further exploring her corporeal fascinations. Lino wears the Women’s OG Detroit Jacket, OG Michigan Coat, and Pierce Double Knee Pant from the SS23 collection.
Danish furniture maker and designer Fialin has adopted a straight-forward approach to his practice. With a focus on minimalism and functionality, his work honors the inherent qualities of materials that he uses, which range from steel and beech, to recycled plastic. Pictured in his studio, Fialin wears this season’s Detroit Jacket and Simple Pant, as well as the Michigan Coat and corresponding Double Knee Pant in lazurite blue.
Steffen Grap is a photographer and artist from Berlin, whose work draws on the idiosyncrasies of skateboarding, relaying them for a wider audience through the mediums of photography, airbrush, collage, and wheat-pasted posters. The latter has seen Grap hijack billboards around the city to display his own work, rendering these sites of advertising and commerce as his own personal canvas. Steffen wears items from the brand’s SS23 collection that focus on reimagining utilitarian classics, including the Skyler Shirt Jacket, Wesley Bib, and Craft Pant.
As the show progresses, a clique of hackers and underground vigilantes arrive to combat corporate law and order. Here, these hackers modeled sporty looks such as leather bombers, leather skirts, baggy pants, graffiti graphics and signature Mowalola emblems. Along come the survivalists who are constantly enveloped in dystopian technology; models in sporty bolero and booty-shorts sets, ponkyskin sets, roughed-up Timberland boots and even more of the Yankees logo.
Creating a narrative of each model from head to toe, agents of faceless corporate entities are covered in bug-like sunglasses, dark hooded dresses, mock Bluetooth headsets, groin cut-out pants and bound arms to represent confinement to capitalism, technology and fetishes. Lit-up makeup can be seen embedded into models' skin to blur the lines between human and machine and to show that the merging between the two may be closer than we think.
For the first time ever, 7 DAYS Active and office Magazine have collaborated on a capsule collection. Smooth lines and distinctive silhouettes highlight the capsule with homogeneous branding against reflective prints, supple fleece, and reversible mesh layers.
7DA encourages the same agile mindset that sparked office Magazine, which has reached for the unconventional since its inception in 2014. Simon Rasmussen, co-founder and editor-in-chief of office, has also been appointed creative director of 7 DAYS Active’s. This collection commemorates Rasmussen’s joining the 7DA team and the prospect his vision will bring to the brand.
Check out the campaign video below.
This capsule offers a sweatsuit with a hooded sweatshirt, a mesh summer workout shirt, and a reversible mesh basketball suit with shorts and a tank top. Each piece sports the collaboration's branding in reflective prints throughout. The sweatsuit features organic cotton fleece in its construction, with contrasting orange drawcords. In the same black and orange combination, the mesh basketball ensemble is easily reversible for a distinguishing look. The mesh workout top is an essential piece, both for layering on the streets and for breathability on the courts.
