Nowdays × HIST · Fashion & Content

How About Now?

A collaboration built around one simple question: how do you live the now?

Creative direction & campaign
Nowdays
Collection development
HIST
Format
Capsule collection · 3 pieces
Discipline
Fashion, Campaign, Content
Profile portrait from the How About Now? campaign
Model holding the I’M HIGH fan from How About Now?
THE CAMPAIGN

A project that brings fashion, reflection and attitude together around a simple question: how do you live the now?

The partnership comes from two brands that share the same creative restlessness: turning ideas into practice. Anyone who creates knows that insight alone doesn’t sustain a process.

In a landscape where people often wait for the perfect moment to act, the collaboration proposes the opposite: an invitation to the present.

How / About / Now — campaign triptych
THE NARRATIVE

Some ideas stay in your head. Others take shape.

The proposal is to spark an everyday reflection: how do we build our small rituals today? In an accelerated world, driven by future goals and the constant search for the next step, it’s easy to forget that well-being is born in the instant: today, here, now.

With HIST × Nowdays, living the present is framed as a gesture of self-care, courage and awareness. Fashion becomes a tool for expression and a nudge towards the small daily decisions that bring us closer to a more present life.

What small rituals sustain your creative mind?
N, for Nowdays · H for HIST

Nowdays

Creative Direction & Campaign

We shaped the concept and the visual language of “How About Now?”, directed the shoot and captured the campaign content, from stills to film.

HIST

Creative & Collection Development

Developed the campaign and the collection, turning the manifesto into three pieces and taking them to market.

The pieces

Three pieces that make the manifesto tangible.

  1. Oversized shirt from the How About Now? capsule

    Oversized shirt

    Cotton oversized shirt carrying the shared phrase “How About Now?”.

  2. Tobacco pouch from the How About Now? capsule

    Tobacco pouch

    Foldable canvas-and-leather smoke pouch, made for everyday rituals.

  3. Lighter holder from the How About Now? capsule

    Lighter holder

    Metal lighter holder with custom details, part of our private ritual.

HIST × Nowdays — campaign still
Campaign moodboard
Tobacco pouch — If you know, you know

“How About Now?” doesn’t bring ready-made answers. Only the question, and the invitation to live it now.

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