In 2018 Spencer Phipps found himself in a peculiar position. As a Californian now living in Paris, he looked for his next adventure in design. He composed a list, outlining his ideal new house: rooted in menswear, open-minded, radically forward thinking but humorous, environmental responsibility at its very core, leaving space for his fascination with outdoor-, sports and nature-cultures and their expansive histories, fabrics, and styles – integrating this into a sophisticated high-end fashion. The result was quite self-evident. This house did simply not exist.

Spencer drew a bold conclusion: he would have to found this house himself. He started off with his first collection Origins in FW18. It brought him a revered selection of clients across the globe, including SSENSE, MatchesFashion, and Joyce among others. The emerging brand was selected as a finalist of the LVMH prize in 2019, and almost self-evidently entered the Paris Fashion Week calendar in the same year. In the tumultuous year 2020, Phipps added film as a key communication medium: a trailer of an imaginary movie replaces the show for SS21 and FW21 and is bound to become a firm tradition of the house.