Who’s this cool customer? Why it’s our old mate Davie ‘babyface’ Hellqvist innit. He’s just been interviewed by the Great Divide for the fourth part of their Body…
Just like Factory Records, rain and sneering at outsiders, Oi Polloi is a Mancunian institution. Being from a town just down the road from Manchester means we’ve watched…
When we decided to up our interview game there was a natural place to start. We’ve known the lads behind The Casual Connoisseur for over a decade now.…
It’s obligatory when talking about Adidas Stan Smith to mention the words; classic/casual/ heritage/ iconic/ legendary and cool. So there you go. From now on it is obligatory…
Calum Gordon is both Scottish and dead good at writing about clothes. The latter is a prerequisite for being on this site really and his Scottishness is a…
Nicked from FashionTV’s Youtube channel.
Silas Adler sounds like a proper futuristic, part cyborg, programmed-to-kill, indestructible, bad guy sent from the year 2376 to destroy us all doesn’t he? Well relax, he’s not…
Once again, it’s nice to break up the bitesize product posts with something of substance. Following on from the recent post about Bob’s involvement with Nike ACG via…
One of the first people we asked to do us a Favourite Five was our old chum David of Universal Works. Unfortunately, he’s been too busy travelling to…
We’ve written loads about 6876 and Kenneth Mackenzie now. Sitting here attempting to tee him up yet again is a familiar feeling. Suffice to say when we tried…
If you’ve been around a while you might know Neil from his Drooghi and RatherNotSay days. If you’re younger you might have seen his Veras shoes out and…
Author of the genre defining Casuals book, Phil Thornton has spent the last year writing an updated version. He’s also fucking sound and was one of the first…
We could go on about how we did an interview with David Keyte what seems like ages ago (because it was ages ago). It’s great to see how…
The following interview took place almost 12 months ago and appeared in the last issue of Proper. With Veras knocking out yet another season of properly ace shoes…
Occasionally our chatty nature takes us off on undercover missions. One such mission has been helping a new publication by the name of Manufacture. In an effort to…
Heritage, Research……If there are two words to sum up the vision of Russ Gater and Daniel Savory, these two are probably the best. We decided it’d be nice to find out more. Russ kindly answered our questions in Issue 8 of Proper, back in early 2009.
We’ve fielded quite a few requests for Issue 9 recently but it has sold out, we don’t even have a spare copy for ourselves. We’re planning a ‘Best Of’ featuring the good stuff from issues 1-9 in 2011 but in the meantime we thought we’d whet your appetite with a little snippet of our interview with the chap behind Superdenim in Issue 9, released in late summer 2010.
Now and again we like to look backwards and pluck things from our archive. Some stuff is timeless isn’t it? Take John Shuttleworth for example. He’s seemingly never been a young man but equally he’s not aged has he? With that in mind we’ve decided to publish an interview we did with the great man a full seven and a half years ago.
We caught up with our generation’s foremost philosopher and talented author Alain De Botton, to see just why on earth he’s written a (fascinating) book studying people doing what they tend to do for the majority of their adult lives, working.
As a local lad made good we can’t believe it took us a couple of issues before we got in touch with Dominic Stansfield. It’s not just the local angle that appeals though. His clothes are and always have been blessed with bags of character and individual without getting anywhere near the realms of looking daft. Quite the opposite in fact. It’s all ace. So we had a chat.