Vice Style

We've been trying to shoot one of the Palace skate team ever since we saw their hilariously funny PWBC videos on Tim & Barry's Don't Watch That TV a few years back. Then came their own-brand comprising Versace-homaging sweaters, Chanel logo-style shirts, VHS-chic skate videos, sick graphic and web design skills. Finally, we persuaded 23-year-old Lucien Clarke to let us take a few shots.

As well as being a pretty good-looking dude, he's probably the best British skateboarder since Benny Fairfax, notable for his laid-back American skate style. Lucien rides a custom Palace Jamaica-colored deck, because he was born there and was pretty happy about a Marcus Garvey deck Palace are sending over.

Thankfully, even though a lot of skate dudes can be total dicks if you don't really know them, Lucien is pretty down-to-earth for a guy whose room is full of boxes of free shit people like Supreme have sent him and even has his own DVS shoes colorway. Not that he's soft, or anything—he wouldn't wear any of the stuff we took along for him and we let him get away with it. Sorry advertisers.

Watch the video we made with the Palace skate team here.