A white Cadillac convertible, khaki leather, and a city that invented the idea of being seen. Going Hollywood is the KOLJA ANNUSSEK Los Angeles project: from the Hollywood Hills down to a concrete underpass, past the Kobe Bryant mural, and up Rodeo Drive.
Why Los Angeles
Everything this brand is built on came out of American culture: basketball, football, hip-hop, the leather jacket as a cultural object. New York gave the collection its streets. Los Angeles gave it the light, the cars and the people who taught me what a jacket can mean. It is Kobe's city and Jeff Hamilton's city, and I had to shoot here.
The project
We shot it entirely in-house, the way every KOLJA ANNUSSEK campaign is made: my creative direction, Keish Reene assisting, video and photography by Brandon Gallucci and Norbert Szikora, and two models who carry leather like they were born in it, Daniela Popa and Zach Sowers. Thirty-two photographs and three films came out of it: Hills, Downtown and Rodeo Drive.
Zach Sowers and the Cadillac, Los Angeles at night.
The pieces are the leather line in khaki: Italian stretch nappa, handcrafted in Paris, made to order. Palm-lined streets, a dark underpass with the Cadillac's chrome catching the light, a Lakers mural, and finally Rodeo Drive, where the leather meets the one street in the world that expects it.
The full series is in the Projects section: Going Hollywood, and the three films are in the Films chapter.
The trip that led to Jeff Hamilton
Los Angeles gave the project one more thing. It was on this trip that I visited Jeff Hamilton, the emperor of the leather jacket, at his atelier. That story is here.
See the pieces in Paris
The khaki leather pieces, the KA Baller and the Los Angeles photographs on canvas are in the KOLJA ANNUSSEK private showroom in Paris, by appointment only. Leather pieces are made to order and priced after a fitting; a piece bought in the showroom is final.
Book your visit at koljaannussek.com/contact or write to vip@koljaannussek.com. You can also reach us directly on WhatsApp.
Private Showroom Paris. By appointment only.
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