Tuesday, 20th January 2009
Richard has long been a fan of Sunspel and thus we have been making his long staple Egyptian superfine cotton t-shirts each season for the last six or seven years. Richard uses his own unique colour palette and then, in conjunction with our design and sampling teams, creates original Richard James shapes and styles for sale in his Savile Row shop and via other Richard James stockists.
Thursday, 20th November 2008
Building on the Harrods model, we were more recently approached by the luxury New York department store Bergdorf Goodman following an article on Sunspel in Monocle Magazine. Hence we have recently created a co-branded range of superfine cotton underwear for them in unique co-brand packaging.
Friday, 31st October 2008
Daniel Craig’s second Bond outing takes him to Bolivia where he’s pitted against Dominic Greene, a corrupt world-renowned developer of green technology and all-round global villain. The action is relentless and dazzling, and Craig is once again mesmerising.
Sunspel again provided clothing for Daniel Craig for use both in front of the camera and behind it on set. We made long staple superfine Egyptian cotton t-shirts and our now legendary Q75 open weave polo shirt. This was first introduced in the 1950s as a cool alternative to pique for the Italian Riviera. Once again, the combination of classic retro styling, comfort and sheer quality make this something you just want to wear.
Wednesday, 20th August 2008
In 2008, we collaborated with Kris Van Assche to create a co-branded range of underwear using the Sunspel heritage Q14 fabric in a selection of shapes. Our respective design teams worked together on this project, with UK-based sampling and production delivery, and the project attracted a good deal of press attention.
Thursday, 24th July 2008
Christian Bale as Batman and Michael Caine as Alfred in 'The Dark Knight'
The darkest, most compelling version of Batman yet witnessed on screen, with a career-defining performance by Heath Ledger as the genuinely unnerving Joker.
Friday, 20th June 2008
We have enjoyed a relationship with Harrods, Knightsbridge, for several decades, and the store sells Sunspel boxer shorts and Sunspel’s heritage Q14 range as well as seasonal specials and thermals.
Complementing this, a co-branded long staple Egyptian superfine cotton range has proved a successful Harrods staple for many years. Recently this relationship was extended to the Harrods at Heathrow Terminal 5.
Wednesday, 20th June 2007
We were approached by William Gilchrist, the London-based stylist and menswear fashion consultant, just before the Stones’ most recent European tour. William was responsible for the band’s world tour wardrobe, and asked us to make some bespoke t-shirts for Charlie Watts for the European leg of the 2007 tour.
Friday, 5th January 2007
We’ve been supplying bespoke UK design and production to leading American designer Thom Browne. What usually happens is he takes our heritage fabrications and uses them in a range of groundbreaking contemporary designs. They’re unlike anything found elsewhere, and it’s always interesting to see what he does with our fabrics.
Thursday, 16th November 2006
Daniel Craig triumphantly assumes the Bond mantle in a hard-hitting, pumped up take on the franchise. Craig plays Bond on his first mission as 007, climaxing in Montenegro where he faces a ruthless financier in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale.
Sunspel worked closely with Lindy Hemming, the film’s costume designer, to produce a range of clothes for Daniel Craig and Sebastien Foucan (who plays Mollaka in the early part of the film).
“There have been so many different characters in films and in theatre that I have dressed in Sunspel vests, t-shirts and underwear because they are classic, timeless and beautifully made,’ says Lindy. ‘This time, dressing Daniel Craig as the new James Bond, I thought that it would be a perfect collaboration of quality and Britishness to ask Sunspel to create all his t-shirts, polo shirts and underwear, which they duly did so excellently. He looks very sexy and happy in their clothing.”
The film’s costume design team came up to the factory in Long Eaton for the styling and development process and worked with our own design and sampling teams on original Sunspel fabrics and shapes, along with fittings and styling for Daniel Craig. All t-shirts and polo shirts were made specially for Daniel and Sebastien from a selection of three unique, distinct fabrications – Egyptian long staple superfine cotton t-shirts, Q75 open weave cotton polo shirts, and heritage string vest fabrications. All were from the Sunspel archives and all were restyled in contemporary designs for a bespoke short production run.
Daniel Craig’s portrayal of James Bond was immediately acclaimed as powerful and compelling, and there’s no doubt he looked effortlessly cool and quintessentially English in his Sunspel t-shirts and polos.
View the official Casino Royale web site.
Tuesday, 20th June 2006
Paul Smith is well known for his support for Nottingham-based companies – and for classic English brands. All of which made a collaboration with Sunspel an obvious choice.
We have in fact been working with him for a number of years, providing a capsule range of made in England underwear, and most recently we made a co-branded range available exclusively for the Paul Smith shops worldwide (other than in Japan).
