5 Moncler Craig Green: An Ancient Future

Few designers are more equipped for the task than Craig Green, one of the most talked-about young talents of fashion’s new guard. The recipient of multiple British Fashion Awards, Green swiftly made a name for himself after completing his Fashion Masters at Central St. Martins, developing a brand known for a utilitarian, futurist vision that nonetheless retains a sensibility for timelessness and classicism. Riffing off of Moncler’s history of outfitting alpine mountaineers with tents, sleeping bags, and quilted jackets, the Moncler C Craig Green collection presents sculptural down-filled suits in a palette of white, black, and midnight blue. With stitching that creates a pinstripe effect, classical menswear elements are found here, reworked into clothing-habitats that are at once soft, human, and protective as they are futuristic, alien, and formally extreme.

Photographer Julien Boudet and 032c Fashion Director Marc Goerhing took the collection's padded garments to St. Agnes, a converted 1960s Brutalist church in Berlin that proved the perfect test area for Green’s architectural designs. Against the church’s concrete walls, the defensive sensuality of the collection is amplified in an updated treatment of man vs. environment. VR artist Simon Speiser was commissioned to create 3D scans of the collection, taking the radical suits even further into a realm where technological and functional advancements meld organically with human touch.

To coincide with the launch of the collection, SSENSE MONTRÉAL launches its newest installation, 5 Moncler Craig Green, an atmospheric recreation of the project’s Milan Fashion Week showcase. Now on view at 418 St. Sulpice in Montreal until September 10th.