O'Neill x Jones launch collaboration with artist Chris Crossen
Mountain performance meets California cool
Classic outdoor + future design x technical comfort = O’Neill x Jones.
O'Neill reaches new heights in style and performance with O'Neill x Jones FW2017, a collection in collaboration with big mountain rider Jeremy Jones. Sustainability has always been really important to Jeremy so the O'Neill x Jones collection is made of recycled shell and with the profits from the collection a contribution is made to POW Protect Our Winters. The collection also meets all technical expectations : 20k/20k, fully taped seams, O’Neill Hyperdry Nano DWR 4-way-stretch, new O’Neill Firewall Magma in selected styles. And last but not least O'Neill x Jones have collaborated with artist Chris Crossen of Truckee California whose paintings arise from a desire to capture color and form within basic compositions and patterns, exploring the interplay between continuity and natural processes.
O’NEILL X JONES – CHRIS CROSSEN
We love Chris Crossen’s work, so we collaborated with him to develop a series of custom made designs for our O’Neill x Jones range. Chris had an excellent experience working with O’Neill on this unique concept, and we are super proud of the application of his amazing artwork to our collection of high performance outerwear.
About CHRIS CROSSEN
I live in Truckee, California, near Lake Tahoe. I get out into the mountains almost every day, and Tahoe is such an ideal location, there’s always mountains to explore, and a great group of eager, motivated friends to explore it all with. If there is snow, I ski, primarily in the backcountry, Tahoe and the Eastern Sierra. I also travel to surf a great deal, as well as occasional surfing on Lake Tahoe when the winds whip the conditions up. My ideal day is a morning ski with friends at a local backcountry spot, then home to work and paint. I spend a great deal of time exploring wild places, it’s a very important and vital component for my work. I love being out there to feel alive and happy, and my paintings strive to pare a place/experience down to its essence, reflected in a simple, immediate way. I primarily work with watercolor on paper to explore minimalism andabstraction, engaging deeply with color and pattern and divergences left to natural processes within the repeating, elemental forms of the mountains, waves, spires, rivers, plants, the colors and the breathtaking beauty of it all. This exploration is the reason why, the freedom of just letting go within the studio to try anything and to lose oneself to the work, and yet refine it so that it is presentable. But still, the drawers of experiments always seem to reflect the loosest, freest, most truthful work. I am very concerned with the destruction we continue to inflict on our world, and I am often experimenting with ways to try to convey this loss and the need for awareness and change. I fear for my children and grand children’s futures, that they will not be able to explore the places and unique experiences that I have. Part of living in the mountains is to recognize that we are very small. We are here for but a moment, yet we can have a tremendous positive or negative impact.
O’NEILL FIREWALL MAGMA
That crazy looking pattern in the back of the jacket is O’Neill Firewall Magma. That’s a thermal energy-absorbing pattern that absorbs and retains significantly more body warmth than a conventional lining (like…25% more). It’s printed there because the back of the jacket is THE place to keep your core warm. It is breathable and moisture wicking too. Clever, huh? Jack O’Neill discovered years ago that it’s crucial to keep your core warm when he was developing wetsuits, and this latest technology is the next level of warmth efficiency in outerwear. Find it in selected Adventure, Snow, O’Neill x Jones and O’Neill Reissue jackets, and never moan about the cold again.