Carhartt WIP features art by Lucas Price for FW21

For Fall 2021, Carhartt WIP has worked with artist Lucas Price, who has created a series of photorealistic oil paintings depicting items from this season’s FW21 men’s and women’s collections.

“They are presented as typical Northern Renaissance images but with contemporary surfaces: industrial materials, contemporary tools; industrial materials…”, Price says of the works Carhartt WIP has created, which show their ability to unite seemingly disparate worlds in a way that remains cohesive.

The capsule also has a classic feel: fabrics such as washed denim and Dearborn Canvas nod to the brand’s foundational elements, but have been applied to contemporary versions.

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Price created the works in London and sent them to Berlin to document them. The video series shows the paintings in three different settings: storage, transport and gallery. The industrial and prefabricated elements, typically associated with the handling of art, are functional and serve as a visual counterpoint to the paintings rich in detail and palette.

Lucas Price is an artist living and working in London. He is known for his photorealistic paintings of everyday objects: basketballs, fire extinguishers, badges…, which are often mixed with other abstract textual elements. This collaboration follows on from the spring 2021 campaign, which included a series of collage-based works, also by Price, who works under the pseudonym Clay Arlington.

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