Schott and Au Vieux Campeur collaborate on a heritage bomber
Two storied houses of outdoor style unite for a seasonal capsule. The result is a black bomber cut with room to breathe, lined in the kind of checked flannel that belongs in a cabin.
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Schott, the New York leather house founded on West 33rd Street in Manhattan, and Au Vieux Campeur, the French outfitter born in 1946, have folded their legacies into a single black bomber that reads as naturally as a shared trail. The silhouette sits deliberately relaxed, its cut generous enough to layer, to move, to breathe as the body demands rather than restrains.
What makes the piece sing is what lives within. The lining unfolds in yellow and burgundy checked flanelle, the sort of pattern that recalls those cherished camping shirts, the ones that smell of woodsmoke and belong equally to a cabin or a city weekend. The details feel earned rather than performed: a loop of bouclette embroidery stitched across the back in red announces Au Vieux Campeur 1946, a quiet assertion of dual heritage that speaks without shouting.
The collaboration arrives as an exclusive proposition, available through Merci Paris and Au Vieux Campeur itself. It is the kind of piece that works equally well pulled from a bedroom closet or retrieved from a car’s back seat, equally at home at a dinner table or at the beginning of a mountain road. The black exterior promises versatility; the checked flannel within promises the wearer knows what comfort feels like.
Imagery courtesy of Schott × Au Vieux Campeur (@merciparis).