Aries Makes Brutalism Beautiful in ROA Hiking Collab

ROA Hiking’s exclusive list of collaborators just grew by one, as the luxe-technical brand takes the short flight from Northern Italy to sunny old London town, to once again open the books for the streetwear-focused Aries to step through with two new renditions of the Andreas hiking boot. 

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ROA’s Andreas model is undoubtedly the brand’s most popular styles and outside of sporadic collaborations with the likes of A Cold Wall, jjjjound and now Aries, has been a mainstay of the Italian bootmasters since they flooded the gorp scene in 2015.

The tried and tested silhouette is blessed with a dichotomy of designs - with the first leaning more into ROA’s own brutalist aesthetic via a black paint job, exposed factory tongue tag and ultra tough leather uppers which have been graciously plied from the African native Kudu - all supported by a lug-heavy Vibram outsole. 

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Final touches include a stitched bit of co-branding, reflective strip surrounding the toe box and bright purple laces.

The second design contains all the trimmings of its release-mate, although making a glaring shift from all black to zebra print hair-on-hide uppers (again constructed from Kudu leather) and green boot laces. 

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The first ROA x Aries collaboration is available now on Aries’ website. Each pair is priced at $625 USD.