Our sales director Marcus was in Paris visiting some of our buyers recently and found himself in the ever interesting Marais district (the 3rd arrondissment), where he spotted this shop window and couldn’t resist photographing it.
Friends of Sunspel
Dressing for dinner
Sunspel polos in Canteen
Wednesday, 14th July 2010
We like what they do at Canteen. They source their ingredients as locally as possible and they believe in simple, honest food that tastes of what it is. In the designs and furniture of their restaurants they aim to celebrate British craftsmanship, and they specialise in bringing great traditional British food back to life too.
‘Terrifying? No, it’s fantastic’
London firefighter Mark Aitken
Tuesday, 29th June 2010
Mark Aitken, 38, is a firefighter and a Sunspel wearer. We spoke to him about rescuing cats, just how frightening it is to find yourself facing a big fire, and what attracts him to Sunspel.
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Jellyfish and jeans
A Berlin store with a philosophy of its own
Thursday, 24th June 2010
When you next find yourself in Berlin, don’t miss 14oz. This is a men’s store worth travelling for.
It’s about the perfect cut
Stuart Staples, lead singer, Tindersticks
Wednesday, 12th May 2010
Ever since they formed in the early 90s, Tindersticks have always been a bit of an obsession for the initiated. Here at Sunspel we’ve been aware of them and their dark, addictive music ever since they used our boxers for some unusual tour merchandise.
Earlier this year, when Tindersticks released their eighth album, Falling Down A Mountain, to widespread critical acclaim, the BBC said it was ‘the sound of a band rediscovering themselves’. And that’s exactly how Stuart Staples, the band’s lead singer, sounded when we spoke to him at his home in France.
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Hello Piccadilly
Snap Galleries open permanent store
Thursday, 29th April 2010
Before Christmas we shared our pop-up store in Mayfair with Snap Galleries, purveyors of rare and wonderful rock photography (like the picture above – the classic Simon Larbalestier image for the Pixies’ Surfer Rosa album).
Contemporary shopping, Japanese style
Boys Co open a new store
Wednesday, 21st April 2010
Our good friends in Japan, Boys Company, have just sent us some pictures of their rather impeccable new store.
Julian Firth: aviator, adventurer, style aficionado
Bringing a design classic back to life
Tuesday, 20th April 2010
Julian Firth is an unusual mix: a man of action and a fan of great British design. But when you see the kind of design he loves – that cool modernist style from the 50s and 60s – it all makes sense. This was an era when men of action looked sleek and stylish (and so did their aircraft). Read full article »
Biker’s jackets for nearly a century
Lewis Leathers ride on
Monday, 22nd March 2010
If you’re ever looking for the iconic biker’s jacket, the pure essential biker’s jacket, this is where to go. Walk up Tottenham Court Road, central London, and turn left at the Rising Sun pub. Then keep your eyes peeled for a black fronted shop – a cool looking little shop with a lot of leather in the window.
We dropped in there the other day to have a look around. The shop’s only been open a short while but it’s already looking as though it’s been there for ever, its walls lined with an assortment of the coolest leather jackets you’ve ever seen, plus the odd vintage poster advertising the same jackets.
Understated excellence
Tom Hollander
Tuesday, 16th March 2010
The excellent Tom Hollander has been quietly working away as one of our finest actors for decades. He’s often the one you remember from a scene or an episode even if you aren’t quite sure who he is. That’s a great ability in an actor.
His role as Secretary of State for International Development Simon Foster MP in In The Loop is probably his most visible to date. But he was the weedy-but-slimy Mister Collins in Pride and Prejudice, petty Lord Cutler Beckett in Pirates of the Caribbean, Saffy’s fiance in Absolutely Fabulous – and many other roles which he inhabited with exceptional ease and skill.
Anyway, he’s ace and we were delighted to learn recently that he’s a fan of Sunspel. He’s even wearing a Sunspel t-shirt in this photoshoot from the Sunday Telegraph Magazine. You just can’t see it. Which seems somehow fitting.