Reception's nostalgic streetwear - The brand's latest collection is inspired by Los Angeles and the beat generation

When Pierre Boiselle, Designer of Reception, first visited Los Angeles with the rest of his team, he was shocked: the huge, brilliant City of Angels was a place full of dreams and beauty, but also of poverty and inequality. The first inspiration that came to his mind, thanks to a podcast by L'Etiquette Magazine, were the novels of Jack Kerouac, prophet of the beat generation, and specifically The Dharma Bums. The podcast reflected on the notion of Clochard Celeste – which is the French translation of Kerouac's title: "Clochard Celeste is an artist who had highs and lows in his life. Rather more lows…But has continued to dress himself in a pretty unique way despite having no money unless for drugs or booze," Boiselle writes in the presentation of his latest collection , designed to dress an imaginary wandering and maudit youth. That same immortalized youth, between lonely pools and palm trees, in the lookbook taken by Thibaut Grevet.