CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN

anthonymcgrath405 / 19/08/2015

He’s a dedicated follower of Fashion – Nick Wooster, The White Briefs & Woolmark

Nick Wooster (Above Left), or Nickelson, to give him his full Christian Name, has to be considered as one of the world’s best dressed man. Literally, every international best dressed list worth its salt, his name appears on it, but who the blinkering heck is this guy ?

Well, it’s kinda of easier to say who he hasn’t worked with than has, huge American retailers like JC Penney, Barneys, Berdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus all appear on his CV, sorry resume, plus brands including Thom Browne, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, so he isn’t doing too badly, hey.

Well the latest brand he’s worked with are Swedish apparel brand The White Briefs to produce a 100 per cent Merino wool capsule collection in partnership with The Woolmark Company. Curated by Wooster – The White Briefs Merino wool collection comprises knitted coats, gym shorts, sleek briefs and breezy robes. A rich palette of dark grey, black, deep navy and a modest touch of olive reinforces the quiet strength of the garments and the use of 100 per cent Australian Merino wool brings a natural and renewable element to the premium collection, which blurs the line between indoors and outdoors.

The White Briefs studio aims to present consumers with a thoughtful innovative vision of our day-to-day and the items closest to our skin that we utilise in every way, shape and form. The studio embraces its love for humanity, environmental and corporate responsibility, lush high quality fabrics and meaningful organic farming.

Furthermore, The White Briefs only incorporates sleek (GOTS) certified fabrics, carefully sourced and selected from local eco-communities, thus building a profound and intelligently supportive production line. This innovative encounter between exquisite timeless tailoring, sleek materials, austere colours and ecologically integrated social production, allows for an enigmatic aspiration to incorporate sartorial excellence into our intense daily endeavours.

“I discovered The White Briefs when I was working on a special project curating the best brands from around the world,” says Wooster. “I fell in love with Peter Simonsson’s attention to detail, styling and quality. He has the best eye for packaging and great taste in colour and fabric. We collaborated a couple of years ago on a camouflage collection, and I when I started working with The Woolmark Company it was the perfect opportunity to co-‐design a 100 per cent Merino wool capsule.”

The Woolmark is the world’s best known textile fibre brand, established in 1964. The company mission is to enhance the profitability, international competitiveness and sustainability of the Australian wool industry; and increase demand and market access for Australian wool.

Merino wool provides stability, resilience, softness and luxury to the tailoring industry. The fibre has long been a favourite of designers, but younger consumers, born in an era of ‘disposable’ fashion know too little about the natural benefits.

Modest and understated, this collection is based on the notion of turning the inside out. The sensual nature of the collection is intensified by the use of the world’s softest woollen fibre, superfine Merino wool, combined with woollen fleece, and mesh wools paired with lavish single jersey and French terry.

anthonymcgrath405 / 17/08/2015

These will leave more than a Glints in your eye – Glints London

Glints London embraces eyewear as a life and style choice; after all, what other fashion item is so central in our life? From working in front of a computer to reading a book, your frames are always with you, from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep, they represent a timelessly classic yet modern eyewear, crafted with the finer details in mind.

The brand was born out of an obsessive love for eyewear and a true will to share this passion, knowledge and expertise with consumers. Glints aims to offer the best hand-crafted eyewear available, together with Hoya superior lenses, for an honest and democratic price point

Their Direct to Consumer model enables them to offer their products at an highly competative price, but it also allows them to get to know the end user better, engage with them and hear what they have to say about their products and service. No middlemen, no filters, just great products delivered straight to our customers, from the workshop.” Is their promise.

All Glints frames are developed in Japan, the indisputable champion of artisan eyewear manufacturing and are handmade in some of the country’s finest factories. Several weeks and no less than 60 precise and careful steps are required in order to create Glints frames.

All frames utilise Japanese Zyl acetates, rated the best in the world for its stability and rich color patterns and working possibilities with Japanese titanium.

The debut collection, proposes a line-up of 15 frames developed by Glints and available online at their website . All models are inspired by vintage aesthetics but all remain unique and original in their own rights. The collection is easy to wear yet strong in style and rich in subtle details, perfect for the discriminating shopper who values quality and style over branding.

anthonymcgrath405 / 14/08/2015

Preview of the Premium Retailers for Autumn 2015

Continuing with our essential round up to what our favourite retailers will be tempting us with as the Autumn collections start to hit our high Streets over the coming weeks. We look to the Premium end of the High Street. As we’ve said on many occasions here at Clothes-Make-the-Man we are spoilt with our high Street style retailers from the value end of the market right the way through to the quality and directional nature of the higher end of the sector.

Over recent years we’ve, been lucky to see, a whole raft of brands join this increasingly, highly competitive market, never before has it been easier for style conscious men to look ever so dapper.

Ohhhh it’s not just the traditional stores that are getting it Ohhh so right, it’s those technical e-tailers too check out Asos for Sartorial Autumn offerings

One of the industry’s best kept secrets COS, straight outta of Sweden and refusing to not make you look exceptionally suave for the forthcoming season.

Jigsaw Menswear looks equally as good in store as it does on-line and in fact on your good self, to be honest.

Our Amercian cousins at Banana Republic showing us how to perfect that Smart Casual look, making it look effortless

Whistles continue to get ever stronger with their Stylish, Wearable Menswear, keep it up guys.

anthonymcgrath405 / 12/08/2015

Scandi your eye over this great range – Sachajuan

By now, you know, and hopefully trust us, in bringing you the best in style and grooming from around the world, just so you don’t have to go to the trouble of tearing around looking for the very best in style and grooming. One such brand is Sachajuan, a Scandi professional hair brand created by two hairdressers and renowned for it’s pared-down, simple and straightforward approach to haircare. The minimal packaging is typical of the Scandi approach to design and naturally has a unisex appeal.

Every product in the range is formulated using their patented Ocean Silk Technology, a fusion of minerals and proteins from different types of sea algae, which helps to boost moisture, shine and best results. Some of their key hero products include the Volume Powder (acts a bit like a dry shampoo, those devil may care kinda days) and the Scalp Treatment, which deeply nourishes the scalp, reducing itchiness and flakiness to keep dandruff at bay, whilst providing a boost of moisture and offering a cooling sensation to soothe the scalp. Infused with healing doses of rosemary oil, menthol, salicylic acid, ginger extract, piroctone olamine and climbazole, these work in conjunction to help calm irritation and redness.

Founded by Sacha Mitic and Juan Rosenlind, see what they’ve done there? Both with extensive international careers in hairdressing, as well as opening their own salons, Mitic and Rosenlind have used all of their expertise to create an essential line of superb hair care products. Simple, straightforward and transformative is what sums up SACHAJUAN’s approach to haircare. Constantly striving to make their brand simply understood and easy to use, the minimal packaging with its sleek lines and clean labels embodies this ethos perfectly.

anthonymcgrath405 / 10/08/2015

Take the unpredictability out of the Summer – Blauer’s Electric Heat Generator jacket

There are many things you expect from the Summer Weather, early morning frost and being able to see your breathe when you exhale are not two of them, but this morning sure enough these omens welcomed me. With this unpredictability in mind, I, regretfully, welcome this new product with open arms, as I place mine through it’s sleeves.

American Brand, Blauer, famous for supplying the uniforms to not only the U.S. Mail Service but many of the Police Departments of this great country. Launches a new down jacket, unique and innovative: the first jacket which heats itself !!!!! Yeah, like having a great, big electric blanket wrapped around you, kinda.

The inner lining of this futuristic, hi-tech jacket hides an innovative generator, the ‘ E.H.G. ( Electric Heat Generator) which through you can warm up the down jacket and keep warm even in cold conditions,

To activate the E.H.G, simply press the button on the chest of the jacket just below the Blauer logo. This will immediately generates heat. It will also be possible to choose the intensity, with three levels of adjustment.

Blauer is very proud to offer this real revolution in the industry of clothing, thanks to the wonder that is E.H.G, hidden inside a three-layer fabric soft , thin, foldable and washable. Previous technology used a stiff carbon fibre like yarn which made the component stiff and breakable when bent.

The exclusive three-layer structure makes this technology so winning: the first layer, a fabric printed in terahertz , supports to reflect body heat, the second is a heat retaining fiber with soft hand feel while the third layer, made of aluminum non-woven fabric , helps to trap in the heat.

So much attention is paid to safety, thateach garment is equipped with antistatic tapes to avoid any static electricity; also the logo switch and cord are securely covered to avoid any leak in electricity.

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