ROWING BLAZERS X EXPLORERS CLUB
The perfect après-expedition wear. Our new collaboration with historic NYC-based The Explorers Club — of which Rowing Blazers founder and creative director Jack Carlson is a Fellow — is now available.
Shot on film by Sissi Lu at The Explorers Club NYC on E 70th St featuring members: Felix Kunze, Grace Cordsen, & Justin Fornal.
The legendary The Explorers Club has been championing scientific discovery and global fellowship since its founding in New York City over a century ago, and we’re proud to be a part of its history: for the past seven years, we’ve made the official blazers for its esteemed members, including all of the living Apollo astronauts.
The club is perhaps best known for its “Famous Firsts”, a series of era-defining feats: members were the first to visit the North Pole (1909), the summit of Mount Everest (1953), the Mariana Trench (1960), the surface of the moon (1969), and, of particular interest to us, the South Pole (1911); the new Rowing Blazers x The Explorers Club rugby shirt commemorates this particular Famous First with a design inspired by the iconic photograph of Roald Amundsen and his crew taken at the South Pole in December, 1911. Five weeks later, Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed crew would reach the Pole and discover Amundsen’s tent, along with a letter left by the Norwegian explorer; Scott subsequently wrote in his diary: “The worst has happened. All the day dreams must go. Great God! This is an awful place.” Perhaps wanting to see for himself, Jack trekked to the South Pole during an expedition in December 2023.
In addition to the aforementioned rugby, which features an all-over embroidered motif, the collection also includes an intarsia-knit cotton crewneck sweater featuring The Explorers Club’s iconic flag; an American-made cotton crewneck sweatshirt; a pair of American-made cotton t-shirts featuring oversized The Explorers Club graphics; a wool flannel cap; a contrasting-brim cotton twill dad hat; and a ceramic stein featuring gold detailing, gothic lettering and The Explorers Club’s official seal and flag.
The Rowing Blazers x The Explorers Club collection is now available to shop — both here on our site and at store.explorers.org.