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even longer faust.....i really like his work.i´ve tried on some of the blazers at L´Eclarieur last time in paris.you really need to feel the clothes.I got told,that we had it from the beginning on here in the store,back in the days.I will try to get more facts.
definitely wanna see the stuff in october from elena dawson.
definitely wanna see the stuff in october from elena dawson.
really looking forward to Elena's clothes too. From what I understand Paul has been doing shoes quite a long time, but the clothing is a recent (last 6 years or so) venture, that was started with Elena.
For those interested, Harnden was born in Canada in 1959. After gaining experience in the UK at John Lobb, he started his label crafting hand made shoes in 1987, eventually moving to Brighton in 1998 where he still works.
I believe you can identify his older pieces as they are tagged 'Handmade in Scotland' rather than England.
let us raise a toast to ancient cotton, rotten voile, gloomy silk, slick carf, decayed goat, inflamed ram, sooty nelton, stifling silk, lazy sheep, bone-dry broad & skinny baffalo.
What I want to know is where Harnden comes from. Did he just walk into L'Eclariuer and IF and Lift and say, check out my expensive peasant stuff and they just went for it?
his pieces have never been available at lift.
what he did in the beginning as a london-based young independent shoemaker after one year apprenticeship with JL was making a round of visits to magazine editors with the samples. and the editor in chief of UK Elle had really taken to his work which naturally pulled some coverage there. then it seems that he started to have some orders.
Yep what SNAFU said is true!
He would only deal with REI personally! And it most def will be in DSM next season.
There is another funny little story about a store approaching him,but i will leave that for now.
Although the outcome was bloody hilarious! A true eccentric character to say the leats.
Any chance you could share that story with us now?... please!
on a side note, to illustrate my first point, i have an anecdote on a Harnden's black ultra long jacket (the kind that makes Mailmoth look like a dreyerian priest) that i tried one day at l'E. I was admiring the very strange cut, with, as always with PH, a slim torso, and then, from the waist to the bottom of the jacket (which was around my ankles!), a series of random pleats and a bell-ish shape. A real cassock for a country priest, made of a harsh boiled wool, marvelous finish and touch... I started inspecting the interior, prepared for the best of the old cotton lining... and WTF! A zip, a motherfucker industrial, standardized, globalized zip! I wanted my inside pocket to be deep, closed by an old dirty button, but a shiny metal zip suddenly reminded me I was living in the 21st century and Harnden too, alas.
Well, Geoffrey B Small he is not. And for good reason. Let me illustrate with my own anecdote. Very late one night I happened to catch part of some sort of Swiss German stand-up comedy act...quite entertaining actually. The guy was elaborating on the difference in restaurant culture between the USA and the German-speaking areas of Europe. He began by giving a run-down of a typical US waiter spiel: 'Hi, my name is Melanie, I'll be your waitress tonight. Our chef has some wonderful signature entrees tonight, eg tuna prepared seven ways, wasabi bla,bla,bla.. followed by bla bla bla. Oh, and if you need anything else, just let me know,,,,oh and have you seen our amazing wine list, bla bla bla, all imported from you know where and made using you know what....oh, and if you sign up for our email notices, you get a special discount, blah blah blah.
And then the stand-up comic gave his rendition of a similar restaurant experience in Germany. Waiter comes to table and says: 'So'. That's it. Nothing more, and nothing less. People order, they eat, they enjoy.
So give me PH in all his glory -- even with the one-off zip (on the inside of the jacket, mind you). Sometimes less really is more.
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