Richard James | Spring Summer 2022 | Charlie Bourgeois
Spring Summer 2022
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Spring Summer 2022
"This is a relaxed, summer-ready collection that takes its inspiration from a classic, open road-cruising mid-20th century USA..."
Entranced by the silvery timbre of a single, siren trumpet, our SS22 collection smooths its soft-shouldered seersucker suit and slinks back to the Newport Jazz Festival of 1955 and a seminal moment in the history of Americana style and soaraway sounds in the company of all-round aesthete extraordinaire Charlie Bourgeois.Promoter Bourgeois - a rare, keen-eyed connoisseur of music, fine food and fashion - was the man behind the breathtaking relaunch of Miles Davis at the Newport Jazz Festival as the debonairly dressed arbiter of cool that he is celebrated as to this day.Courtesy of Bourgeois and a trip with him to the famous Massachusetts Ivy League outfitters the Andover Shop, Davis upped his style-game and went onstage at Newport resplendent in the then go-to establishment get-up of a seersucker suit, club-collar shirt and bow tie.This is a relaxed, summer-ready collection that takes its inspiration from a classic, open road-cruising mid-20th century USA scene and salutes the arrival of a slick, exciting new age of all-encompassing cosmopolitanism.Solid base colours of olive, navy and ivory give way to deep mid-tones of tobacco, salmon and mushroom, and fleeting accents of pastel pink, yellow and blue.Tailoring is light and luxurious, with featherweight wool gabardine, wool and cashmere blends, plush pastel needlecords and classically striped and softly textured wool and cotton seersucker featuring prominently.
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