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There’s a regular debate going on around here about how much of the work behind what we do should be shared. Our garments should speak for themselves of course. The fact is that our impulse to reveal parts of the process has less to do with marketing and more to do with indulging our own obsessions. We just really like this stuff and we have trouble resisting the urge to talk about it.
There’s probably something written on every posting in the website about worshipping tradition while destroying convention. What’s humbling is to see how much convention-destroying has gone on all along, steadily pushing the utility/workwear tradition forward. The place we learn most about that is digging through the rails of vintage shops and stalls. We get to do it all around the world which is probably the single biggest privilege or our jobs. It’s a privilege because of the education it provides, but even more for the people we get to meet and the stories we hear from them. These are the folks actually going into the countryside digging through old barns and abandoned warehouses looking for specimens that might be old but can strike us as totally new since they can sometimes reveal ideas we’ve never seen before. Little ideas we can pick-up on and try to move forward a little ourselves. Innovation to inspire further innovation.
We don’t want to horde these experiences or be guilty of a sort of gluttony when it comes to inspiration. So we’ll keep sharing the stories for as long as we can. We'll do it through the archives here in the Denham Garment Library section and we'll do it through our Cutter's Council postings as well. In this installment:
SPITALFEILDS MARKET:
Dave White of Ragtop Vintage
Cosmo Wise of De Rien
Philip Pittack of Crescent Trading
THE ROSE BOWL MARKET:
Shogo of Lightning Magazine
Scott Corey of Santa Fe Vintage