Dazed & Confused’s spring fashion special features a Sunspel t-shirt under a pair of braces…
Press Coverage
Telegraph men’s style
Spring/Summer 2010
7th April 2010
A Sunspel plain black tee makes an appearance in the Telegraph men’s style supplement…
BBC Working Lunch
3rd March 2010
Interview with Dom Hazlehurst and Nick Brooke on BBC working lunch…
Mail on Sunday Live magazine, 28 February 2010
Ten of the greatest British style classics
2nd March 2010
Sunspel’s 007 Riviera polo shirt was the one worn by Sean Connery in the very early films. It’s a nice piece in that it’s not your usual John Smedley or Lacoste; it’s a perforated, soft polo shirt. It looks great in black or dark colours. When the wardrobe researchers were coming up with a wardrobe…
GQ (April 2010 issue)
A stitch in time
GQ, 1st March 2010
From Long Eaton with love… Sunspel was a Great British institution long before James Bond donned its mesh shirts, says Nick Foulkes…
Country & Town House
Sunspel shine online
26th February 2010
Sunspel’s iconic T-shirts, underwear and polo shirts have been made in Derbyshire for almost 150 years and the brand has now updated with a smart, informative site where you can peruse and purchase online…
GQ’s 100 best things in the world (Jan 2010 issue)
Sunspel plain white tee
GQ Magazine, 14th December 2009
Cottoning on… There comes a moment in life when an M&S T-shirt just looks lazy. Sleep in one by all means, but otherwise save it for walks with Rover. If you’re going to saunter into the office wearing a white T-shirt this basic piece of wardrobe kit needs refining. Sunspel has been making…
The right to bare arms
T-shirts are back and this time they’ve grown up
Financial Times, 9th December 2009
Once upon a time a T-shirt could be all things to all people. Teenagers could use it as a symbol of rebellion, thanks to films such as The Wild One and Rebel Without A Cause, while grown-ups could leverage its workman-like past to suggest manliness and maturity. Then came the skatewear market with its slogans, and Katharine Hamnett with her political statements, making the T-shirt a difficult thing to wear for anyone over 30. On hot summer days, how we mourned. (Published in the Financial TImes, 22nd August 2009)…
London Planner
What’s Hot? The new Sunspel store, London W1
London Planner, 9th December 2009
What is it all about the words “limited collection” or “for a limited time only” that sends us into a spin? Knowing that something is available for only a short space for time seems to immediately add to its allure, which probably explains why the recent spate of pop-up shops in the capital have…
“you to a Tee”
T-shirts: still cool after all these years
The Times Newspaper, 18th November 2009
A few weeks back I was lucky enough to get a ride in a legendary motor. The Mercedes-Benz 300SL “gull-wing” sports car of 1954 was the fastest production car of its day. This machine is quite simply a thing of beauty. With its smooth, streamlined curves, and extraordinary futuristic upwards-opening gull wing doors, it can’t be bettered.
It got me wondering: what other products could simply be rolled out half a century later and still hold their own? I realised that I was wearing one…