A-Cold-Wall takes the beloved Dr Marten boot to greater heights through elevated details in an attempt to contrast its uniform and workwear origins.
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We?ve loved him as the creative visionary behind budding streetwear brand A-Cold-Wall in 2015, and even more so as a finalist for the 2018 LVMH Prize for young fashion designers. With a Bachelor in Arts and Science, 29 year-old Samuel Ross? irreplicable genius has skyrocketed him to international fame.
Designer of A-Cold-Wall, and Virgil Abloh’s Former Protégé, Samuel Ross Collabs With Dr. Martens

As the former protégé of American designer, entrepreneur, DJ and artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s men’s wear collection, Virgil Abloh ? Samuel Ross continues the active working relationship with the senior creator, as consultant of his mentor?s subsidiary brand, OFF-WHITE. On his own, A-Cold-Wall has also successfully amassed over 115 global luxury stockists, within a mere four years since its establishment, reporting turnover rates of at least EUR 8.4 million.
With ancestry which can be traced back to Benin in West Africa, Samuel Ross was raised in Wellingborough, a relatively deprived Northamptonshire town where he started out selling fake Nike gear from his mother’s front room. Currently based in London, A-Cold-Wall merges British working-class uniforms with ele...