Portland’s outdoor favourites Columbia has worked with Urban Outfitters for this season for an exclusive collection that celebrates nature in an unccomon way. Inspired by Northern European renaissance…
The Challenger from Columbia is a lesson in 90s colourblocking and design. The smock, as a category of coat, is simple, but with all things simple, there’ll always…
Having profiled the likes of The Lathums, Jamie Webster and Sam Tompkins, menswear specialists Scotts continue to celebrate British guitar music with their Under The Spotlight series. The latest episode highlights Riley Broudie, guitarist with Liverpool’s long-standing indie favourites The Lightning Seeds.…
A couple days ago, a few friends and I had an impromptu pub quiz outside a boozer. It was on an app, and you had to nominate a…
Nazi Germany, 1937: Paul Lamfrom is feeling political tensions rising. On account of his Jewishness, he makes the decision to move his family from the home of The…
There can’t be a more appropriately-named retailer in the UK than Terraces. With an offering of hooded outerwear that is so far up our street it’s almost in…
Most brands have their one style on which they could hang their hat, some of them literally. While Columbia have done some amazing headwear, if they had to…
In terms of outdoor brands the Columbia story takes some beating. Encompassing a narrow escape from Nazi Germany, a housewife having to become a CEO overnight and a…
If you’ve read issue 28 of Proper (and if not then get a copy here) you’ll have seen the article all about the legendary American outdoor brand Columbia.…
Hip Store do not mess about when it comes to seasonal sales and this Christmas there are some seriously banging bargains to be had. The haul includes some…
As if working on the Empire Strikes Back out in Norway wasn’t cool enough, the film crew all got to wear these amazing jackets as well. Some guys/girls…
If you’ve read the latest issue of our magazine then (hopefully) you’ll have seen the article I wrote about the American outdoor brand Columbia. It’s an incredible story…
Portland in America really does seem like the promised land to me, a quasi-mythical place where craft beer flows from the taps, every street has an exotic/organic food…
During big coat season sooner or later we’ll inevitably start talking about how all everyone really wants to look like is Han Solo in the Empire Strikes Back.…