One of many issues Jamie and I had been eager to do with The Informal Model Information was usher in feedback from a few of the individuals featured – what they thought in regards to the outfits, fairly than simply us.
So we approached 5 individuals, and requested them to offer us a few hundred phrases – roughly the identical that we wrote every time – about what the model meant to them. I believe they’re attention-grabbing, each for the content material and for the totally different voices that I, at the very least, can hear every time.
So I believed it might be good to breed three of them right here: Luke Walker of L.E.J, Ethan Newton from Bryceland’s and the photographer James Harvey-Kelly.
Ethan:
“I like double denim as a glance; there is a little bit of a stigma round it, however I believe that is dumb. It appears nice when the jeans are each actually darkish and uncooked – there’s one thing of a 90s hip-hop vibe to it then – and after they’re actually crushed down, like right here.
It helps if the jeans have the same forged. They will begin to look unusual if one has a extremely inexperienced forged, or a pink one, and the opposite does not. Or if one’s a right-hand twill and the opposite a left hand, like a Levi’s jacket and a Lee jean. That is extra vital than whether or not they’re pale the identical. Normally jeans from the identical model – like these from us at Bryceland’s – will not have these points.
This can be a good instance of color blocking too, which I do lots, with just a bit level of color. All denim (or it might be all navy) with a contact of pink within the Papa Nui hat. Oh and velvet slippers actually enchantment to me right here due to the textural distinction between the crushed denim and that easy, darkish velvet.”
James:
“For me, most good outfits mix one thing contemporary and even delicate with one thing extra rustic and masculine.
That is nothing profound or new, however it’s a approach of dressing up the dressing down, or dressing down the dressing up – and after they meet someplace within the center the garments begin to really feel extra like yours.
Right here that is in regards to the urbane-ness of the Belgian loafers and Bate’s hat, performed in opposition to the basic sportiness of the Barbour and the Polo rugby shirt that I really like.”
Luke:
“I believe it is attention-grabbing you have put this outfit within the workwear part of the e-book, as a result of it very a lot is workwear, even when it does not look it.
Denims clearly have workwear origins and I believe most individuals can relate to that – they’re clearly nonetheless a troublesome pair of trousers, and have that affiliation. However the jacket is definitely an outdated French waiter’s uniform, one thing that may have been mass produced after which mass laundered. It isn’t what individuals affiliate with workwear, however it’s as a lot as any pair of trousers.
The bag over my shoulder is sadly out of shot, however that is one other instance. It is a Noé bag from Louis Vuitton, a bucket model with a drawstring that was apparently initially made for champagne salesmen, to hulk round city. It is robust, even when the trendy affiliation is luxe.
So many garments are like this – like tweeds, which had been actual utility clothes however simply appear refined immediately as a result of they’re made into good jackets.
My go-to model is mixing workwear items with finer ones, like a silk shirt. I really like that top/low, the wealthy and don’t-give-a-fuck look. I like outdated denims like this with elongated, French calf sneakers in the identical approach.”
