Vintage Menswear

Two centuries of archived threads from The Vintage Showroom

Safeguarding the proud stock of British sportswear, Douglas Gunn and Roy Lucket founded The Vintage Showroom in 2007 as a collector’s tribute to historic threads. Their Notting Hill showroom and retail space in Covent Garden’s Seven Dials are dedicated to outdoor duds from throughout the ages. Their new book, authored by men’s style writer Josh Sims, collects 130 highlights from the archive as a tribute …

Wolsey Fall/Winter 2012

Next-generation heritage from the British menswear label

With 257 years of brand heritage behind it, Wolsey‘s Fall/Winter 2012 collection remains fully modern in a marriage of robust fabrics and forward-minded design. Moleskin and mohair are everywhere in the coming season, as are old favorites like cable knits and Fair Isle sweaters, in this case updated with digital jacquard. Functionality is not without a sense of time and place—slant pockets, cropped blazers and …

LN-CC: Music

From Phil Manzanera to Zsou, our look at the London concept shop's collection of rare vinyl and audio goods

Late Night Chameleon Cafe—known by most as the covetable e-shop LN-CC—is a cosmic place of wonder, both online and at its Gary Card-designed brick-and-mortar location in the heart of Dalston. With an inventory of esoteric goods filling out the striking, cocoon-like space, it’s easy to feel intimidated by LN-CC’s appointment-only basement digs. But as we recently learned from creative mastermind and co-founder Dan Mitchell, the …