Being the proud Stopfordians that we are Fred Perry is someone we’re rather fond of here at Proper and so we’re rather impressed that his clothing legacy appears to share some of the same fashionable friends as our humble magazine. For the second Friends of Fred project the label has comissioned a contemporary yet mod-ish outfit by collaborating with some of our favourite labels.
Oh we do like a bit of baggage here at Proper and quite frankly it doesn’t come much better than Lake District luggage legends Chapman. Collaborating for the first time with this legendary English bag maker, this compact, functional style has been designed exclusively for Modern Classics.
To celebrate the newly released AW11 collection from our Bolognese brothers over at 12th Man, we’re giving one of you very lucky people the chance to win £150 worth of their artisan, limited edition, natural fabric using, 100% Italian, eagled up and incredibly comfortable clothing.
We like to mention nice things here on Proper. Usually that’s confined to clothes and footwear but occasionally we break the mould and mention books, bags and other…
Yeah yeah we know it’s slightly later than we said it would be, but that’s simply because we’re perfectionists and we wouldn’t want to unleash a mediocre magazine…
No, it’s not a 1990s drug reference. Those days are gone. No, we’re talking about a young shoe brand, straight out of South Wales via Spain. Intrigued? You…
What do you mean you can’t see it? Oh right, you were doing one of those jokes about camouflage weren’t you? Bad jokes aside, the time is now…
Hands up who collects things? Me too. Clothes (obv.), disco records, foreign/indie films on DVD, flick knives, old tins, religious statues, swing tags, luxury socks, Mai 68 posters and cool books are just some of the things that regularly bring out the hunter gatherer/blatant show-off in me.
Remember Silas? Well they’re back and have created an impressive collaboration with KEY (Keep up earth yourself) as part of their already extensive AW11 range. KEY hail from OKAYAMA, one of the notorious areas of Japanese denim manufacturing,
Collaborations are pretty old hat now aren’t they? But that doesn’t mean they’re all bad. Ok, so there have been some mental mash ups in recent months, many…