Converse along with Slam Jam and Cali Thornhill Dewitt has unveiled their new Urban Utility Collection which includes the Chuck ’70 Hiker (the original Chuck Taylor All Star reconstructed as a GORE-TEX hiker) and Converse Jump Boot (a Jack Purcell-style ode to paratrooper footwear).
The capsule is inspired by a generation that rallies around community and freedom of expression, and for whom functionality means nothing if it’s creatively limiting. Dewitt’s graphics, formed of his notorious all-caps punk-style lettering and translated into English, Farsi, Italian, Korean, French, Russian and Hebrew, aims to deliver a powerful message. It may seem in contrast to the starkness of the Urban Utility aesthetic but serves to balance ideas of freedom of motion and freedom of thought.
The 17-piece capsule collection is built with cross-seasonality in mind and features layering options from short-sleeve Converse Essentials jersey tees and long sleeve thermals and hoodies to the pinnacle men’s GORE-TEX® Utility Jacket.
The Converse x Slam Jam x Cali Thornhill Dewitt Urban Utility Collection will release at select Converse retailers including Converse.com on December 5th.
Converse x Slam Jam x Cali Thornhill Dewitt Chuck ’70 Hiker
December 5, 2017
$150
Converse x Slam Jam x Cali Thornhill Dewitt Chuck ’70 Utility Hiker
December 5, 2017
$150
Converse x Slam Jam x Cali Thornhill Dewitt Jump Boot
December 5, 2017
$160
