It's More Than a Jacket, It's a Conversation
Esquire US|September 2023
Ouigi Theodore, founder of the preppy-meets-street brand the Brooklyn Circus, explains how his signature varsity jacket speaks to American history and his own
JONATHAN EVANS
It's More Than a Jacket, It's a Conversation

THE VARSITY JACKET, FOR ME, DATES BACK to when I had to choose between buying my high school football team's varsity and a pair of Jordans. I really wanted the jacket, but it didn't have the value and the sentimental weight that I wanted it to have. I got the Jordans.

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