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Community Clothing launching trainers with Norman Walsh

Community Clothing, the apparel brand and social enterprise founded by Patrick Grant, is launching trainers made in the UK with cult British sports shoemaker Normal Walsh. Grant has worked with the Walsh team to re-design a 1980s running shoe from their extensive archive to introduce a new unisex running shoe named ‘Beacon’ after Beacon Fell, a...

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Community Clothing looking to bring underwear manufacturing back to Wales

Patrick Grant’s clothing brand and social enterprise, Community Clothing, is looking to reignite Welsh underwear manufacturing with a new inclusive range of affordable, high-quality underwear for men and women made in Wales. Community Clothing, known for championing British manufacturing through its partnership with 42 factories across the UK,...

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Savile Row designer Patrick Grant on embracing slow and local fashion

London - “Fashion is on such a messily over-consumptive model that we have sort of lost the joy of it, and we have to collectively find a way to bring the joy back,” said British fashion designer and owner of Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons, Patrick Grant, during his keynote talk at Pure London on Sunday. In front of a crowd of industry...

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Patrick Grant named co-chair of Future Textiles programme

Fashion designer Patrick Grant and Scottish textiles manufacturer John Sugden have been named co-chairs of The Prince’s Foundation’s Future Textiles steering group, which has been designed to “breathe new life” into the Scottish textiles industry. Based at Dumfries House, Grant, who owns Savile Row tailor Norton and Sons and men’s ready-to-wear...

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Highlights from London Collections: Men

London- Although London has a long history of creating what can only be described as unique menswear trends - think back to the 18th century dandy, to the bowler-hatted civil servant of the mid 1800s, to the pinstriped stockbroker of the 1950s, to the 70s safety-pinned punk in bondage trousers - the notion that men can and should pay close...