Carhartt WIP Classics Just Got Reworked

6 days ago in StyleWords By Tom Barker

This article was published on March 1, 2023 and has been updated to include shopping links to Carhartt WIP’s SS23 collection.

Having started the SS23 season strongly, with a lookbook that certainly isn’t lacking in finesse, Carhartt WIP has offered another look at what it’s got in its newest selection.

The workwear label’s experimental subline has remastered its most iconic pieces, and it’s not like there’s a lack of designs for it to choose from in the archives. Double knee pants, chore coats, overalls… Carhartt’s history of producing worker’s uniforms has created countless wardrobe essentials.

Those classic designs have been tweaked by the brand using its typically robust and hard-wearing fabrics, then delivered in colorways that range from its iconic Hamilton brown to bold blues.

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Just as we’re beginning to look forward to the slightly longer days of spring, the prospect of wearing the brand’s signature Detroit jacket and matching workwear pants, without the need for puffer jackets and layers of knitwear, is a promising one.

And to show just how easy it is to turn a look out of a matching Carhartt two-piece and a plain t-shirt, it has linked up with Rita Lino and Frederik Fialin at work in their Berlin-based studio space.

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Captured by photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek, Lino is a visual artist with four published books that explore her self-confessed obsession with the self, a practice she describes as “animalistic, intimate, and narcissistic.”

Meanwhile, Fialin is a furniture maker and designer responsible for the minimalistic chairs found in the background of the shots — which he creates using everything from steel and beech, to recycled plastic.

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While the duo might not be working blue-collar jobs like the OG Carhartt wearers, they’re one example of where Carhartt WIP’s reworked workwear thrives — amongst creatives needing hard-wearing and comfortable wares.