Livid

Gillish Black Wax

$738°

Slot: Outer
Formality: 3 / 5
Warmth: 3 / 5
Retail: $738 approx.

The Gillish Black Wax is a jacket from Livid, $738 at retail. Olmetex wax cloth, flannel lining.

Mid-winter with something under it; on its own it runs out somewhere around freezing. It lands in the middle — dressed enough for an office that has stopped caring, casual enough for a Saturday.

Tagged Nordic minimal and denim, and down for everyday, work and weekends — those are the occasions the builder will actually put it in front of you for.

Look 03 · Mørketid: Polar Night

Above the Arctic Circle the sun does not clear the horizon for weeks. The Norwegians call it mørketid — the dark time, and the only honest name for this. Kuroki and Collect denim, Olmetex wax cloth, Manteco recycled wool, sewn in Portugal, duties included, ships to the US. Almost the whole outfit comes from one Norwegian company almost nobody in America is on, and it coheres because it was designed to: the Gillish wax shell over the Buzz knit over the Barnes denim is the house's own three-piece logic, stated without a logo anywhere, which is why it reads as one garment rather than three. The 1906R and a $14 Stance crew are the only outside pieces, and both are there to keep the total honest: a five-piece winter outfit that lands under $1,700 all in.

SkipThe Blake coat at $1,048. 680gsm brushed Manteco is a glorious thing and it is also a coat you will wear eleven days a year. The Gillish covers the other three hundred.

The rest of the fit

One garment per remaining slot, chosen the way the builder chooses: occasion overlap, formality that holds across the fit, warmth that agrees with itself, and the layering rules that stop a collar ending up under a hood. Head to toe with the Gillish Black Wax: $2,692 at retail.