Cast your eyes over the fourth edition of 6876’s distinctive Brecon jacket in all it’s half-bellow pocketed glory. Constructed from 210 gram, olive, L24 ripstop (UK) ventile with lampo zips, Italian…
The future is always shaped by knowledge gained from experience. It’s unavoidable. When you’ve done good stuff in the past, it makes sense to revisit it. The latest…
It’s a widely held notion in POPular-culture circles that the original is better than the sequel. We all know though, being the culture vultures we are, that this is…
It’s been a wonderful time for lovers of great t-shirts recently hasn’t it? First came our marxist/situationist number, then we had the monochrome majesty of the Too Hot…
Bugger the bloody bombing, buy a brilliant bomber. Ok, so slightly forced with the alliteration, I agree, but a sound sentiment on both counts. It’s dead easy to…
With leather versions due to follow in SS16 this superb suede duo are the first fantastic installments from 6876 and Clarks Originals. Both the blue Desert Treks and grey…
Do clothing collections come and better than this? No, no frankly they really fucking don’t. Kazuki and Kenneth are back again for the second round of Fourness x…
This is what happens when a pair of our favourite people get together and make a pair of shoes. Long term friends and sometime working colleagues its taken…
The brains behind London-based brand 6876, Kenneth is an old friend of the Hip Store. As part of their Hip Selects series they decided to sit down for a chat,…
Sometimes writing these Proper pieces isn’t as easy as you’d think. I know you all reckon you could put a well dressed chimp in front of a keyboard,…
To think that not so long ago ‘Tweed’ was firmly routed as fabric of choice for the echelons of the upper working classes. Particularly worn as a way…
What makes a good jacket a bloody great jacket? Is it the well thought out choice of technical fabric; that not only does the job it’s supposed to…
You all know that 6876 have been doing some very interesting capsules of late. But one from the not too distant past is the 6876 x Rohan Capsule…
Having the integrity not to be arsed about ‘Cash-Cows’ (Sir) Kenneth Mackenzie has turned his focus once more to Cash Ca (geddit?) and producing a collection of top…
Whilst other #menswear brands try to reinvent themselves or create an imagined history, background story or faux Britishness (mentioning no names…I will if you bung me tenner) it’s…
I proper love this relief map of the Alaskan mountains partly because it reminds me of a 1960s Apollo space ship model kit I got when I was…
The flyer says it all. If you’re reading Kenneth, save us one of those limited edition cat hair Sonoras please. I’ll pick it up in Jelember.
Now if ever there was a collaboration with our name firmly stamped onto it, its this one. Kenneth Mackenzie’s legendary 6876 label, has hooked up with Stockport tennis/mod…
You don’t need to be an avid Proper follower to be aware of our appreciation of 6876. With that and the recent inclement weather in mind, we’re cheered to see the arrival of the 6876 Brecon, a modernist parka style jacket in a couple of ace fabrics.
Back in January the Proper Magazine bandwagon limped into London and our first port of call was a certain cool complex near to Russell Square.
Within this impressive building the 6876 studio exists.
We’ve long been fans of 6876 so it was with curiosity we headed down to their HQ earlier this year. On that occasion we saw the first samples of Kenneth MacKenzie’s collaboration with the Regent Belt Company, released soon after under the name of R6. Well, that stuff obviously went down well because it’s back again with a second collection for AW10.