The La Haine x Carhartt WIP collection will be released on Decemin Carthartt WIP stores and on the website.
Though it can hardly be considered a cult film (it won Best Director at Cannes in 1995), its popularity bears all the hallmarks of one and Carhartt’s capsule is testament to that fact. It will be exclusively « friends and family » and for the members of the film crew. Shot in black and white with an excellent score and a number of unforgettable scenes, La Haine has embedded itself within popular culture.
What began in 1886 as the uniform brand for blue-collar industrial workers in the United States has become a staple in street style. The three main characters of Vinz, Saïd, and Hubert (played by Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaou) may have been fictitious but the lives they led and people they represented were anything but. Still from 1995 French film 'La Haine' La Haine, Image Credit: Carhartt WIP Archives Carhartts evolution from a blue collar staple to a millennial statement piece. Set against a near constant threat of violence, the film is both an insight into the festering social inequality that prevailed under Jacques Chirac in the 1990s and a more universal story of life on the peripheries, lost youth and urban disaffection. La Haine follows 24 hours in the life of three friends from the suburban banlieues of Paris.