Viewed the total lot half-first rate on Netflix, Disney+, Hulu and Amazon Top combined? Then skills a brief time of relief by taking in the beautiful 2nd Spencer Phipps digital presentation. Shot on the Skaftafellsjökull glacier in Iceland and starring the honest-fit pogonophile dressmaker, the video is the truth is a trailer for a film he hasn’t made yet that co-stars the sequence. Paging the Netflix commissioning personnel: that film seems like formulation better than the abysmal Out of doors The Wire. Lack of a correct voiceover artist aside, the trailer/show is beautiful, irreverent—and serious too.
As well to mountain climbing and fashion invent, Phipps’s kinks encompass environmental accountability. Again, this fun-loving sequence addressed heavy factors humorously and attractively. Entitled “Endurance” after Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship on the doomed Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, the sequence channeled archetypes of masculine (and generally maddening) exploration and mirrored the consequences of the boldness that the planet is ours to beat and exploit.
“It diagram feminizing, twisting, exaggerating, transferring,” acknowledged Phipps of a sequence that opened with “Set the Fucking Whales” recycled cashmere knits whose sales will relief an NGO named Oceanic Global that is working to non-public factual that. Italian milled wool with technical therapies became as soon as outmoded in purposefully captivating bodysuits that mimicked the thermal underclothes Shackleton and his ilk lived in nonetheless which would possibly perchance well well presumably as properly be outmoded to get a dancefloor. Technical wear became as soon as rendered in recycled sea plastic Econyl and colored in ombre waves. Stiff collared teddy coats, rugby shirts and Shetland and cable knits were frail college pieces styled on original college explorers, wearable environments rendered healthily new by their inhabitants. Phipps is punk Patagonia, correct on each level, and excellent attire for the rostrum, whether or no longer you are standing on it to proselytize for positivity or factual taking a stare to social gathering.
