NEED A SHINE?
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!
Update:
And here are some pictures of the Brift H. trunk show in our Earlham Street store from last Friday. A big thank you to the Brift H team, hopefully we can do this again!
H. HUNTSMAN & SONS
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:
5374 – A DENIM ARCHIVE
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.
WAX/ WAX CAMO/ CAMO
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.
DIVING SUIT
The painting above first triggered an interest in The Royal Navy’s open submersibles. Painted by George Horace Davis (1881-1963), these two charioteers in an open submersible or ‘Human Torepedo’ inspired a new search for these extremely hard to find suits. Our fascination with all thing submersible which saw years of hunting down elusive “Ursula Suits” and other related clothing used by submariners found a new direction in our quest for these fascinating suits.
COCKTAIL RINGS
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.
RECOMMENDED READING: SPAIN 1969
“In the spring of 1969 on the outskirts of Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol in Spain, a young photographer, Paul Carter, came across a small blue van. It was home to the Whitfield family who were passing through on their journey around Europe. Over a few days he took photos of the family, the local people living and working around them, the tourists and the new high rise apartments.”
IF IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR CHARLIE SHEEN
Don’t know what you lot are thinking of, but we’re talking of course about his black leather La Rocka ‘pirate’ jacket worn by Mr Sheen in the seminal 1986 John Hughes high school truancy flick ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’.