One of the highlights for me of London Collections:Men this week was the launch of Mr Porter's first menswear collection, Kingsman. I liked what I saw; not only because it's made in the UK and is linked to the film, Kingsman: The Secret Service, but because I would wear any of it.
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| Colin Firth in Kingsman: The Secret Service outside fictional Kingsman in The Secret
Service. Photograph: Allstar/20th Century Fox |
The collection launch took place at Huntsman, Savile Row. The store had been transformed into a traditional London tailors as a set for the film. Early in the life of Kingsman: The Secret Service, the film's writer, Matthew Vaughn, and costume designer, Arianne Phillips, liaised with Mr Porter to produce the menswear collection. (Images below from Mr Porter).
The sixty-piece collection is inspired by the Savile Row tradition, and made by the best of British production including: Bremont timepieces; Cutler & Gross eyewear; Drakes ties and pocket squares; Corgi knitwear; George Cleverley footwear; Mackintosh outerwear, Swaine Adeney Brigg bags and Turnbull & Asser shirting.
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| Quality tailoring and British made |
The film has its première today and is released by 20th Century Fox later this month. It stars Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Michael Caine and emerging-actor Taron Egerton, is based on the comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass, X-Men First Class). It tells the story of a secret spy organisation that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training programme just as a global threat emerges from a twisted genius.
The collection is being sold through Mr Porter online. And I can't resist including the trailer for the new film, enjoy it: