A new materialism
Outlier makes high performance clothing for the wild/city. Durable, breathable and experimental garments designed for free movement worldwide, without borders.
Our approach to design is grounded in a deep materialism, everything we do starts with respect for the raw materials. Our process is intensely experimental, it is only by pushing material and forms past their limits that we can truly understand how things work and how far they can go. We love creating new things but we are not interested in novelty, only new functionalities. It is only by moving at the rhythm of the earth that we can separate accelerated garbage from true progress and move forward at human speeds. The information apocalypse has already happened, our goal is to design clothing to navigate this new future.
While we may be a business, we believe profit should never be the main reason a company exists. Businesses need money the same way humans need water. It is essential to function, but the less we need to think about it the better off we are. A healthy organization creates value that extends far beyond money and into all points of its operation; from suppliers to employees and from customers into communities across the globe.
Outlier was founded in 2008 by Abe Burmeister and Tyler Clemens and is based in New York City.
