Jack Carlson Email & Phone Number

Jack Carlson is a designer, author, archaeologist, and former member on the U.S. rowing team. He founded the brand Rowing Blazers and has led the revival of several heritage brands, including Warm & Wonderful and Arthur Ashe. In 2024, he sold Rowing Blazers to Tory Burch co-founder Chris Burch's firm Burch Creative Capital, while staying on as Creative Director.As a designer, Jack is known for combining obsessive historical research with a subversive take on “the classics.” He combines elements from the worlds of tailoring, sportswear, and streetwear in unusual ways and has received industry praise for his work across apparel, watches, footwear, luggage, and accessories.Jack has collaborated with a wide range of brands, including Gucci, Seiko, Barbour, Tag Heuer, Umbro, FILA, Sperry, Noah, Tudor, The Grateful Dead, J. Press, The Grateful Dead, La Martina, Spalding, Globe-Trotter, Harry’s Bar, Lands’ End, Zodiac, Eric Emanuel, Babar, Hunter, Tracksmith, New Era, Jams World, ’47, J. Crew, SEGA, LeSportsac, Puma Hoops, the NBA, K-Swiss, Beams Plus, Ralph Lauren, and Target.Jack has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, The Financial Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Monocle, Foreign Policy, Antiquity, The New England Classical Journal, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Popeye, Hypebeast, Esquire, and GQ.Jack has designed pieces that have been worn by Gwyneth Paltrow, Timothée Chalamet, Keith Richards, Dwyane Wade, Justin and Hailey Bieber, Mindy Kaling, Chloë Sevigny, Russell Westbrook, BTS, Pete Davidson, Emily Ratajkowski, and many others.A three-time member of the U.S. national rowing team, Jack won a bronze medal at the 2015 World Championships and won both the Head of the Charles and Henley Royal Regatta in 2013.Jack earned a doctorate in archaeology at Oxford and an undergraduate degree at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown. He worked as a field archaeologist in Italy and has written on a wide variety of topics, from iron age weapons to the Arch of Constantine. Jack is a Fellow of The Explorers Club, the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Royal Numismatic Society; and a Life Member of the Archaeological Institute of America, Oxford University Boat Club, and the I.B.F. (International Bar Flies) at Harry’s Bar in Paris. Jack also serves on the board of Row New York, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering young people through the sport of rowing, regardless of background or ability.In 2023, he skied to the South Pole with his seventy-two-year-old father.

Listed skills include Bronze, Classical, and Rowing.