For nearly a year, The Elder Statesman’s Greg Chait and Bailey Hunter had actually been talking about the concept of beginning a browse label. “Surfing can be more than simply browsing,” Chait stated on a Zoom from the Paris display room where they’re holding market consultations. “You can browse waves of various things; it’s such a great metaphor for life.” They made the label a truth, landing on the name Interdimensional Surf; the line is focused on materials that can be used year-round and quickly cared for. Consider example the “Italian cotton workwear” trousers that open the lookbook, which include pockets that have actually been hand-airbrushed with retro flames and a sundown theme. A long dress/hoodie hybrid constructed out of washable terry cotton “with a little bit of cashmere” was influenced by the cover-ups that some internet users use when altering out of their wetsuits and into routine clothing at the beach.
That browsing mindset naturally affected their pre-fall collection, and the duo connected to Ozzy Wright, an Australian pro-surfer and artist who produces work under the name Ozzy Wrong, to team up on a series of vibrant tie-dye cashmere sweatshirts emblazoned with mottos like THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN, a white intarsia cotton sweatshirt with a fast sketch of an eyeball that checks out OPEN YOUR EYES TO THE WORLD, and a sweatshirt with an infinity logo design comprised of patchworked dolphins with smiley deals with and the word DOLPHINITY diminishing the arms. Extremely groovy.
In other places, it was a few of the label’s devoted womenswear that stuck out; like the simple maxi slip gown made from an extremely light-weight tropical wool plaid in 2 various color schemes, or a ribbed tee and matching skirt made from a cotton cashmere in an abstract pattern of yellow bleeding into orange bleeding into lavender.