"Quarantine has been about facing your own rhythm. A lot of us have spent our entire Canada Goose Coat lives on someone else's rhythm, and we haven't had a chance to get to know ourselves. One of the greatest gifts I was given as a young person was a lot of alone time.
Forest bathing Shinrin - yoku is a medicinal practise that is centuries - old, first founded in Japan in the 1980s as a therapy for city dwellers who were feeling the crush of city life during the country's tech boom. The government took notice of the detrimental impact urban living was having on its citizens: from navigating dense populations, working long hours in the office and finding little green space in their radius, people were reporting more cases of depression, stress and myriad body ailments - all due to a sensory overload with their day - to - day routines. Forest bathing became the antidote for the grind: spend a few hours immersed in nature, and you will be healed of all that ails you.
Upon the beginning of Parka Season here in Chicago, I could not help but notice the disproportionate amount of Canada Goose parkas on the quad. Now, I understand that the University of Chicago as a whole has a relatively affluent student body - to put it modestly - but I am continually shocked by the amount of students casually wearing 800 - 1400 jackets. And to be clear, I am theoretically guilty of this very offense; if I could afford a Canada Goose jacket, you bet I would wear it the first day I feel a cool breeze.
Upton, who stars in the collection's campaign, travelled to Churchill, Man., to visit the local PBI outpost and see the organization's work first - hand. For the self - proclaimed "animal lover" and champion equestrian (she competed at the national level when she was a teen), this partnership seems like an organic fit. "Conservation has always been important to me and even more now that I'm a mother," says the model, who gave birth to her first child in 2018.