The Elder Statesman

After taking trips and finding inspiration in far flung locales like Japan, Jamaica, and Mexico, The Elder Statesman team looked to its own backyard for the spring 2023 collection. “We really wanted to tap into our core values,” Bailey…

For spring, The Elder Statesman creative director Bailey Hunter looked to 101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindōgu, a 1995 book by the Japanese inventor Kenji Kawakami. Though humorous, Kawakami’s creations, like the…

During the pandemic, Greg Chait and his The Elder Statesman team cultivated real chill vibes. They went to communes, visited deserts, and zoomed around Los Angeles to hang out with friends and collaborators. Their approach is one of slow…

Greg Chait landed on a good formula for presenting his Elder Statesman collections digitally a year ago. Rather than futz with new technologies he did the oldest thing in the book: drove around and hung out. First he zoomed around Los…