CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN

anthonymcgrath405 / 25/08/2015

Living a fast paced life – Dashing Tweeds X Fred Perry

Long gone is the image of Tweed as being restricted to the apparel of old men, Farmers, American Tourists searching out their ancestry in the Emerald Isle and Geography teachers. In recent years we’ve seen Harris Tweed team up with everyone from TOPMAN to Nike and The North Face. Donegal Tweed turned certain financial ruin complete round to working with Fashion heavyweights the like of Jimmy Choo and Burberry. However, you may have not heard ofand we’d forgive for not knowing of the lesser known Dashing Tweeds.

Founded by Guy Hills, who’s love of tailoring pushed him to create men’s suiting/cloth with a twist. The brand has recently launched a flag ship store on London’s, Sackville Street which opened in the last year; they have also been nominated for UKFT awards –for ‘ Textile Brand of the Year 2015’. Dashing Tweeds have collaborated in the past with converse, Hudson, Pharrell’s Billionaire Boys club and have created cloth especially for Louise Gray, Hardy Amies, Holly Fulton and Henry Holland.

Collaboration, not surprisingly, is a key ethos to the Dashing Tweeds brand and it seemed like a natural progression to work with British brand Fred Perry, synonymous with the iconic sportsman and his cotton pique tennis innovative tennis shirts. Fred Perry has its heart in British sportswear and streetwear and Dashing Tweeds is a company with the aim to make traditional British country sportswear urban and modern using fabric development and technological yarns. Both companies share a sense of sporting tradition, yet are sold in the arena of forward looking fashion. Fred Perry are interested to continue their story of fabric development with the creative designs of Dashing Tweeds who are keen to bring their textile designs to a wider audience. Dashing Tweeds have developed a unique reflective tweed cloth for Fred Perry designed in their East London studio and woven on the Scottish borders.

The collaboration consists of a 4 piece capsule collection of men’s travel bags and caps. Dashing Tweeds have also designed a Harrington Jacket adding to this unique range using the finest British reflective tweed specifically designed and woven for this one off exclusive collaboration.

anthonymcgrath405 / 21/08/2015

Flying the flag for Excellent Accessories – WaxandHide.co.uk

London based online retailer Wax & Hide has hand-picked a finely-selected range of items from the world’s leading independent men’s accessory brands to launch their new online store. JBird Collective, This is Ground, Kancha and Bison Made are just a few of the stylish brands that have been carefully chosen to be offered as part of the first Wax & Hide collection. Sourced from the four corners of the world, many of these brands are exclusively available to Wax & Hide.

Born from a passion for quality and stylishly crafted men’s bags and wallets, Wax & Hide is the brainchild of London based founders James Hurst and Haydn Thomas. Sourcing a collection of rigorously hand-picked products from across the globe, they provide a notable alternative to those offered by the mainstream high-end retailers.

These independent brands have been thoughtfully selected on the basis of their quality, heritage and craftsmanship to compete with the top of the range leading luxury men’s accessories the market has to offer. The products include wallets, messenger bags, backpacks and weekend holdall bags with prices starting from as little as £30. Every product on Wax & Hide has been picked to carry everything a dapper man needs with style, durability and craftsmanship at the forefront.

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.

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