Tag: Swaine

Menswear Item of The Week The Gold Horse Granny Bag

Written on October 12, 2023.

Swaine – Special Edition Margot Gold Equestrian Embroidery – £7500 Thanks to Harry Styles and the like we are all carrying granny bags. When two of your favourite made-in-UK brands, producing the finest handmade products, come together it’s hard not to stand back and simply admire. This bag from Swaine, with embroidery from one of my favourites, Hand & Lock, is a contemporary masterpiece and a nice reminder you can still find modern luxury goods made to the highest quality. (Albeit at a price!) A one-off, it has been crafted under Swaine’s newish store on New Bond Street from the finest leather with an ostrich skin handle. Swaine’s beautiful equestrian logo has been intricately embroidered using Hand & Lock’s 2% gold bullion wire embroidery. This...

Get The Look Indiana Jones Dial Of Destiny

Written on June 15, 2023.

Indy is back! Slightly older and greyer, he is a hero nevertheless. Who knew archeology could be so stylish? The new and final film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, has Indy racing against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA. Looking just as cool as ever in his leather jacket and Poet hat, Indy is a style icon and one where it doesn’t matter if you roll around in the dust. Hat – Herbert Johnson’s original indy hat was made distinctive by reducing the brim width only on the sides, creating a dimensional brim. Shaping the brim into an ovoid protected the eyes and neck whilst reducing the sides helped with...