DESIGNER HAIDER ACKERMANN on MANITOBA, CANADA

In November of 2023, I went to Churchill, Manitoba, in the northern reaches of Canada.

- AS TOLD TO MATT ORTILE

Canada Goose had approached me to become their creative director, and I wanted to learn more about the company and their partnership with Polar Bears International, a nonprofit conservation organization based in Churchill. I was immediately seduced by the silence and the immense landscape. There's something beautiful about it: You feel like a very small person, you're made vulnerable, and you realize you don't mean that much in the world. It was the start of winter and the temperature was 20 degrees below zero, but I couldn't really feel