The most beautiful 21st century tweed ?
1December 11, 2014 by Ville Raivio
Some two years ago I saw a tweed I haven’t been able to forget. It was colourful, coarse, thick, warm, and beautiful — as a proper British tweed should be, but it also had a bit of something else. I cannot name this element, so it can only be that quinta essentia men found some centuries ago, but forgot as science obliterated pondering for pondering’s sake. This tweed is Kirkton 551 from Lovat Mills and I’m calling it the most beautiful tweed of this, our 21st century.
Head over to The Journal of Style for the full monty:
http://www.the-journal-of-style.com/2012/02/12/bespoke-three-piece-tweed-suit/
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What is fashion?
0December 10, 2014 by Ville Raivio
“What is Fashion? Is it not a persuasion that nothing was ever right till the present moment, and that the present moment will immediately be as wrong as all its predecessors?”
~ Horace Walpole
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Fred Astaire in his own words
1December 8, 2014 by Ville Raivio
“[I am] bad-tempered, impatient, hard to please, critical… At the risk of disillusionment, I must admit that I don`t like top hats, white ties and tails. I am always arriving at dinner parties not wearing a dinner jacket when I should, or vice versa… The carefree, the best-dressed, the debonair Fred Astaire! What a myth! My hats are too small, my coats are too short, my walk is loose. I am full of faults. I have a sense of humor, but it won’t always work for me. I am always blowing my top over the wrong things… I tell you, I am a very annoying guy.”
~ Fred Astaire in his autobiography Steps in Time
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