SOULLAND’s creative backbone, 23 year old Silas Adler was born in Denmark, but has roots in both Sweden and Tanzania. This young Scandinavian spend his youngest childhood in alternative surroundings in rural Jutland. Before moving to Copenhagen as a young teen he also spend several years in Gothenburg, Sweden. The combination of countryside alternative lifestyle and the urban life on and around the streets of Gothenburg and Copenhagen makes up a driving force in Silas’s work as a designer and graphic artist. After a serious knee injury put an end to idle skateboarding around Copenhagen, Silas founded SOULLAND at age 17 as an excuse for not going to school. Since then the company has grown into a serious enterprise. Without any formal education in the field of design Silas has been nominated as Denmark’s best upcoming designer (Danish Fashion Awards) and Scandinavian talent of the year by Swedish Plus46 Awards. And has made considerable noise with three consecutive shows at Copenhagen fashion week, to much critical acclaim from media and the local scene alike. The street-level and in-crowd buzz from Copenhagen has also been noticed internationally in cultural magazines and fashion periodicals such as Wad (France), Collezione Sport and Street, The Fader (US), Lowdown (Germany), Milk X, (China), Style and the Family Tunes (Germany), Arena (DK), Euroman (DK),