Lukas Vincent Highlights The Support From Australia's Fashion Industry

Lukas Vincent has been announced as the Australian Designer of the Year at GQ Men of the Year awards in Sydney. Basically forever, surfwear was alwasy about as far from luxury as you could get. Then, in 2016, along came Lukas Vincent and Ex Infinitas. His incredible take on the clothes that have defined surf culture for decades, termed 'bogan-luxe' by ourselves earlier this year, saw him take home the $50,000 regional Woolmark Prize for design in 2016. International recognition shortly followed, and Ex Infinitas has since been heralded as possibly the most exciting luxury brand to come out of Australia in the last few years. Everything about Ex infinitas is designed exclusively to subvert traditional surfer culture as much as possible, and Vincent has since become a pioneer of the luxury 'Surf-Dandy' aesthetic. What exactly does this mean? Think ready-to-surf wear that, while it'll absolutely turn heads on bondi beach, is as at home in the pages of Vogue Japan as it is in the pacific ocean. It's oversized shirts, blazers and jumpers adorned in stickers and shakas. It's merino snowboots, socks with slides and thousand-Euro snow coats. Fashion is all about smashing boundaries, and it was about time someone took Australia's long-outdated surf culture to task once and for all. For that reason, Vincent gets our nod as Australian Designer of the Year for 2017. See more on GQ.COM.AU CREDITS Videography: SixtyFour Films SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://gq.com.au/subscribe Follow GQ o