In the early 1950’s an Edwardian look was being revived by young men, wearing long lean high buttoned jackets and adopting a tapered trouser. The so-called Teddy Boys was one of the first teenage subcultures, influenced by US rock’n’roll and Edwardian men’s fashion.
On September 30th – October 1st New York will host the first annual New York Denim Days Festival at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, and we will be there!
As long term friends of the Kingpins Shows and the Amsterdam Denim Days event, we were extremely excited with the jump across the pond to New York!
What we have here is not your usual Steak & Kidney Pie, this thing oozes Latin flavor.
Need a shine? Come to our Earlham Street Store in Covent Garden tomorrow Friday for a masterclass in shoe shining by world champion Yuya Hasegawa. He will be shining shoes in our store for £10 per pair. See you there!
With London sat at 30 degrees, Wimbledon just days away and Henley Royal Regatta around the corner, (and undoubtable inspired by messers Daniel Kearn’s and David Beckham’s recent Kent&Curwen collection), we thought we would share some recent finds:
Our latest book is a collaboration with Orta Anadolu. Over the last 6 years we have worked together on a number of projects with them and at the same time have helped to establish and develop their fantastic denim archive in Istanbul.
This is the sequence from left to right and somewhere along the chain, a little alchemy happens in the form of the wax DPM camo NATO Barbour jacket.
Men’s ‘Cocktail rings’ are typical of the 1960s/70’s and classically feature a stone such as a Cornelian, Onyx or a Tigers eye.
