
Dockers Super Hard Khakis
A branded campaign for Dockers SHK that put skateboarders in khakis and asked what happens when workwear meets street culture.
Dockers Super Hard Khakis were built to take a beating — reinforced seams, heavy-duty twill, a construction spec borrowed from workwear rather than fashion. The question was how to market a pair of khakis to people who would never self-identify as khaki wearers. The answer was skateboarding.
We produced a full campaign built around skaters wearing SHK in the wild — no studio shoots, no catalog posing. The photography used long exposures and desaturated tones to create a cinematic quality that felt more like an editorial in a skate mag than an ad for pants. One of the hero images composited a frozen skater against his own motion blur, a visual metaphor for the pants themselves: still holding their shape while everything around them moves.
The campaign ran across digital and print, with a lookbook that paired the motion photography with product detail and lifestyle context. The work succeeded because it took Dockers seriously as a material rather than a brand — treating the khaki as a substrate for culture rather than the other way around.





