| Sharpen your style for the week. |
We asked Spencer Phipps, designer extraordinaire and the world’s foremost layering expert, to share the secrets to piling on flannels, hoodies, and thermals with auteur-like flair. —Yang-Yi Goh, senior style editor |
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How to Layer Better, According to a Layering Genius |
If layering is an art form, Spencer Phipps is menswear’s Michelangelo. At his eponymous label, the LA-based designer subverts frontier Americana—studded flannel shirts, leather-paneled jeans—with a jocular, Tom of Finland-esque wink. The same approach animates his personal style, a glorious mishmash of shrunken rugby shirts, beat-to-hell work boots, slouchy carpenter pants, and bicep-hugging thermal tees, informed by his upbringing in the Bay Area and stints working for European heavyweights like Dries Van Noten.
Like any good designer, Phipps is his own best advertisement. (Being built like the statue of David’s brolic older brother helps.) On Instagram, where Phipps documents his outfits with a consistency that’d make a therapist proud, he models a can’t-be-taught carelessness that’s raised his label’s profile and landed him big-time styling gigs, including the chance to put Superman’s David Corenswet in multiple nubby, rough-hewn knits for a recent GQ Hype cover story. (Corenswet was a shade nonplussed at first, Phipps says, but he gamely played along.)
All of which makes him distinctly qualified to answer the question that plagues every menswear fan during the in-between season, when temperatures can fluctuate by 20 degrees in the span of a few hours: How the heck should I dress right now?
To get the low-down on leveling up your layering, GQ gave Phipps a call to discuss his no-fuss approach to getting dressed, how to know when you’re overdoing it, and why layering is the “quintessential definition of personal style.”
Click here to read the full interview.
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