Palm Angels started life as a photographic documentation of skater culture in Los Angeles. Publishing his photographs in a book in 2011, Milan-born founder Franceso Ragazzi moved to the city and was fascinated by the culture surrounding the sport and the styles of dress of the skaters that linked them so strongly to their culture: clothing as identity tropes and cultural signifiers, if you were. It seemed only a natural progression for Ragazzi when, in 2015, he decided to turn his photographs into fashion, and create his own clothing line, which is where Palm Angels as we know it today was born. 

It has since gone on to dominate the catwalks, with the brand itself staging numerous iconic runway shows, in any sort of brutalist staging imaginable: abandoned factories, playgrounds, piers; mountains of colored sand; building modernist towers; caging classical sculptures in plexiglass boxes while piercing darkness with beams of light. His shows are always one to watch, and this year will be no different, when, for the first time since its founding, Palm Angels will bring its collection to the streets of Paris for the Fall/Winter 2023 collections on March 5th 2023.

“They will ignore you, until they can’t,” says Ragazzi, defining Palm Angels core values as, “Transferring a precise point of view, a culturally relevant standpoint, a strong creativity, and a definite sense of community.” The brand is always widely celebrated for its collaborations with Moncler Genius project, 8 Moncler Palm Angels, which has been seen on the likes of @Naomi Campbell and @Fredo.

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