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Fashion brand Kith needed a fresh face for its upcoming fall 2022 collection, and it chose to branch away from fashion and dive into comedy. The brand picked Jerry Seinfeld as the new face of Kith’s campaign.
The 68-year-old comedian posed in a blue baseball hat paired with a football jacket in one shot, a gray sweatpants set in another and an embroidered jean set in the third photo, clicked by Mark Seliger.
In one shot, Seinfeld wore a white shirt paired with a beige flower-patterned jacket, along with jeans and sneakers with bright neon stripes.
Known for the baseball cap and casual jacket look, the shoot elevated Seinfeld’s style.
The pictures were first posted to the brand’s Instagram account and the “Comedians in cars Getting Coffee” host reposted them.
“I was honored to be a part of Ronnie Fieg’s brilliant idea to do a kith collection that will benefit CUNY and my alma mater Queens College. Shooting these pics with Ronnie and my friend Mark Seliger was just plain fun all day,” Seinfield said in the caption. Fieg founded the fashion brand in 2010.
The photos took the internet by storm and the memes inevitably started rolling in.
The collection itself is described as “an evolution of the brand and showcases forays into new product categories and fabric executions,” the brand said in a press release.
“These include a range of leather apparel crafted in Italy with a custom debossed paisley pattern, mohair leopard print cardigans, colourblocked wrinkle-nylon hybrid jackets, multi-striped woven chenille jackets and pants, flocked denim to create a velour hand-feel, and a range of sherpa outerwear,” Kith said.
The new collection is a partnership with the City University of New York.